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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 ...
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Summoned by the Earth with Cynthia Jurs
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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 Cy…
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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 p…
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Nurturing My Seat of Spiritual Practice
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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 conce…
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Dharma: The unique thread of you in the vast tapestry of life
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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:/…
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{BONUS EPISODE} Goddess Summer Ashram in Corfu
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In this bonus episode of Living Goddess, Chameli shares information about the 18th annual Summer Ashram Retreat that she hosts in Greece. She shares the focus and mythology for each week, about the practices of dance, chanting, embodied mythology, and temple touch. For more information about the Goddess Summer Ashram www.corfuretreat.com For deepen…
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Today we call upon Vishnu, the Hindu God, and consort to Lakshmi the Goddess of Abundance. It may be easy to say yes to the beautiful and abundant flow of Lakshmi, but as many of us have overdosed on the suffocating structures of the patriarchy, we often resist creating the sacred structures needed for the qualities of Lakshmi to truly flourish in …
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Today we call upon the Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of Abundance. Chameli shares about the four arms of the Goddess, and how they give us a powerful map for a spirituality that is balanced and embodied, and ultimately leads us into heart of abundance. As Chameli continues her pilgrimage, she will take a break from producing the podcast and will be ba…
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As she is preparing for a pilgrimage, Chameli reflects on the Buddhist terms Windhorse and Drip, and on how clearing clutter and being in integrity with your hearts wisdom, not only creates more flow, ease, and abundance in your life but ultimately brings you into union with your deepest self. For deepening studies with Chameli www.awakeningwomen.c…
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Create a New Year rooted in Wisdom: The Norn Goddesses
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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 int…
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Retrieving my baby dolphin self: The journey - part 2
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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 o…
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Retrieving my baby dolphin self: Freedom from people pleasing - part 1
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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