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July 12, 2024 72 mins

Get in, Woozers! We're doing a giveaway!  Anyone who leaves a review (or has left one already! (thanks!!)) for the show on Apple Podcasts by August 15 will be eligible to win a half-hour reading with Natasha.

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett are excited to discuss altars with Sarah Maher, owner of Village & Vessel, an online and brick & mortar metaphysical shop in Oak Park, IL.

In this episode, they discuss:

  • Natasha's recent depression
  • Working through feelings of shame and perfectionism
  • The importance of an outside perspective
  • The question is already out there.  Now listen for the answer.
  • How "just being" is an active state
  • Natasha's encounter with a leprechaun.  Yes, a leprechaun
  • Brett's skeptical part freaking out about the existence of leprechauns
  • Looking forward to a time that all people are taught to trust and value their intuition
  • "I am Jewish and whatever dimension I come from." - Natasha
  • What does a world look like where everyone's subjective experience is valid?
  • Recognizing black & white thinking as a sign of a trauma response
  • When you bring something into your home, you are wanting to shift an energy
  • You work with your altar and it works with you
  • You can base your altar on anything: four elements, ancestors, a certain time period, a want
  • Putting your altars to work
  • Altar making workshops at Village & Vessel
  • The necessity of ritual for altar work
  • Spiritual tooth brushing
  • Some ways to set up an altar for manifestation
  • Feeling crystal vibrations for the first time
  • Altars as a bridge between the physical and the spiritual
  • What to do when you're done with a particular altar
  • Don't worry: You're not doing crystals wrong
  • How to reinvigorate an altar you're not connecting with any more
  • A brief discussion of Ariana Madix and her amazing boundaries
  • And more!

Plus...

 

Sarah's info:

 

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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