by Becca Piastrelli
<p>Welcome to Belonging, a podcast that explores being alive in the age of loneliness. Becca Piastrelli is your host and guide on a journey of courageous reconnection as we explore topics like rites of passage, cultivating meaningful community, seasonal and cyclical living, and what it means to be a good ancestor in these times. She has thought provoking conversations with friends, teachers, elders, and ancestral medicine keepers to help support you in bringing more meaning and connection to your life. She also pops in here and there to share updates and learnings from her own story because we were meant to do this together - cosmically holding hands as we walk the spiral of life. You can expect to be challenged by new (or old) ideas, face your beliefs and what systems informed them, get curious and brave to tell the truth about the deeper, harder things, and feel comforted in the knowing that you don’t have to navigate it all alone.</p>
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June 12, 2024
<p>In today’s episode, I am joined by Lara Vesta, author of ‘The Year of the Dark Goddess’ and ‘The Moon Divas Guidebook’ (among other titles). In this conversation, we explore navigating difficult rites of passage, learning its culture through myths, fairytales and other symbolism and calling in our webs of support - whether they be human, spiritual, animal, plant or otherwise.</p><p>Lara offers us tools and insights how we can empower and transform ourselves through the processes of grief and fear, drawing from ancestral traditions and the wisdom of the Dark Goddess.</p><p><b>Tune in to hear more from us on:</b></p><ul><li>Learning the culture of rites of passage and the role of the dark goddess</li><li>Honoring the shifts in our lives and identity with a new status or name</li><li>Growing our internal knowing and webs of support</li><li>Experiencing disorientation in a culture that can’t meet you</li><li>Creating seasonal awareness and honouring the pacing of the ceremonial year</li><li>Lara’s non-negotiable integration practices</li><li>The time it may take to integrate a rite of passage</li><li>Learning to create ceremony and ritual for integrating and honoring a rite of passage</li></ul><p><b>Resources + Links</b></p><ul><li>Lara Vesta’s book <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Year-Dark-Goddess-Journey-Renewal/dp/1578638275/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35EW8C6D9KB0W&keywords=year+of+the+dark+goddess&qid=1696521960&sprefix=year+of+the+dark+goddess%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-1'>The Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth</a></li><li>Find Lara’s work on her website <a href='http://laravesta.co/'>laravesta.co</a></li><li>My book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Root-Ritual-Timeless-Connect-Community/dp/1683647726'>Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self</a></li><li>Connect with me on Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/'>@beccapiastrelli</a></li></ul><p><b>Timestamps</b> <br/>[0:00] Introduction <br/>[5:46] Navigating Rites of Passage <br/>[8:11] Learning How to Cope with Challenges through Myths and Fairytales <br/>[11:38] Developing our Internal Knowing and Webs of Support <br/>[13:16] Becoming Sovereign in your own Process <br/>[15:58] The Transformative Power of a Daily Ritual and Recording it <br/>[19:32] Introducing the Dark Goddess and her Many Forms <br/>[23:23] Our Culture’s Separation from Death and Discomfort with Grief <br/>[27:26] Seasonal Awareness, Ritual and Self Care for Rites of Passage <br/>[32:48] The Time it Takes to Integrate a Rite of Passage <br/>[36:09] The Garden as a Mirror for Life and Navigating its Hardships <br/>[35:37] The Purpose of Challenges</p>
May 8, 2024
<p>In today’s episode, I am joined by my friend Gemma Brady of ‘Sister Stories’ to explore our mutual passion of sharing circle work. One of Gemma’s mission is to make going to circle as common as going to yoga class and in this conversation, she shares how she approaches circle as a living, breathing art form. She shares vulnerably about how she experienced her second pregnancy and how circle, both as a participant and a facilitator, sustained her most through that time. Above all, this conversation is an invitation to everyone who feels the call to do circle work to explore their own unique expression and what it means to them to devote themselves to the heart of the practice.</p><p>Tune in to hear more from us on:</p><ul><li>How to find your own unique style of circle work</li><li>Challenging assumptions about the aesthetic, scale and framework of circle</li><li>How circle can foster meaningful connections and compassion</li><li>How circle is medicine, and an opportunity for personal growth, for the facilitator too</li><li>Preserving integrity in circle work while allowing it to evolve</li><li>Releasing the idea of hierarchy and competition within this work</li></ul><p><b>Resources + Links</b></p><ul><li>Lead unforgettable circles that satisfy your soul — so you can unleash your magic in the world: <a href='https://beccapiastrelli.com/high-lady-workshop'>join my free workshop ‘High Lady’ on May 22nd</a>.</li><li>Find Gemma Brady’s work on her website <a href='http://sisterstories.co'>sisterstories.co</a> & Instagram <a href='https://instagram.com/sisterstoriesuk'>@sisterstoriesuk</a>. Her <a href='https://www.sisterstories.co/doors-open-sister-stories-facilitation-online-training-may-2024'>Women’s Circle Facilitation Training</a> starts again in May.</li><li>My book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Root-Ritual-Timeless-Connect-Community/dp/1683647726'>Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self</a></li><li>Connect with me on Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/'>@beccapiastrelli</a></li></ul><p><b>Timestamps</b></p><p>[0:00] Introduction and The High Lady Workshop on Facilitating the Circle of your Dreams <br/>[5:39] Introducing Gemma Brady and our Personal Connection <br/>[11:40] Gemma’s Background in Spaceholding and the Creation of ‘Sister Stories’ <br/>[17:23] The Power of Deep Speaking and Listening <br/>[19:03] The Essence of Circle Beyond the Aesthetic + Unbranding Circle <br/>[23:04] Circle as a Philosophy <br/>[24:49] Spreading the Word of Circle <br/>[27:44] Marketing Circle Work and Claiming your Unique Expression <br/>[33:41] Shifted Assumptions around Circle <br/>[37:57] Preserving Integrity and Allowing Evolution and Creativity in our Offerings <br/>[40:49] Humanity and Imperfection in Circle <br/>[42:39] Circle as Medicine for the Facilitator too <br/>[51:33] Offering Circle Facilitation</p>
April 24, 2024
<p>In today’s episode, I am joined by Johannah Reimer to talk about holding circle for our girls and the female-bodied youth that are in our lives. Johannah is a soulcentric educator, ceremonialist, teen mentor, and an artist of many trades. Trained as a Waldorf teacher, Johannah has been working with children of all ages for over 20 years and holds a particular passion for tweens/teens striving to meet their developmental needs for mentorship and initiation in a culture that has forgotten how to do so. Johannah founded Wakeful Nature & Girls Group as a means to fill the initiatory void for girls crossing the threshold of childhood into adolescence with guidance, ceremony, and community.</p><p>Johannah and I share our passion for the healing that can happen through circling and ceremony and in this conversation I get the change to get nosey about her incredible work facilitating girls groups, the impact this work has on her as a space holder and so much more. Above all, Johannah calls for the ‘village aunties’ to step up, cultivating more awareness around what today’s generation of girls is moving through and weaving together multi-generational embodied wisdom.</p><p><b>Tune in to hear more from us on:</b></p><ul><li>Remembering how to be village aunties and engage in re-villaging work</li><li>Creating a safe space for younger girls</li><li>The challenges faced by girls in today’s society</li><li>Working with the elements and ancestral remembrance</li><li>Ritualizing the first bleed and normalizing menstrual cycle awareness through storytelling and archetypes</li><li>Modeling imperfection and the human experience as a facilitator</li><li>Allowing the girls to grow capacity within circle</li><li>Experiencing grief as a facilitator whilst also carving the new path for ritual and ceremony</li><li>Stepping into our role as matriarchal leaders and how we can move into a post-patriarchal society</li></ul><p><b>Resources + Links</b></p><ul><li>Find Johannah’s work on <a href='http://wakefulnature.com/'>wakefulnature.com</a> and Instagram <a href='https://instagram.com/wakeful.nature'>@wakeful.nature</a></li><li><a href='https://wakefulnature.com/facilitator-training-early-access'>Find out more about Johannah’s Girls Group Facilitator training</a></li><li><a href='https://wakefulnature.com/ceremony'>Learn how to craft a meaningful rite of passage for your daughter’s menstrual cycle with Johannah</a></li><li>Book: ‘The Anxious Generation’ by Jonathan Haidt</li><li>My book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Root-Ritual-Timeless-Connect-Community/dp/1683647726'>Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self</a></li><li>Connect with me on Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/'>@beccapiastrelli</a></li></ul><p><b>Timestamps</b></p><p>[0:00] Introduction </p><p>[09:43] Remembering How to be Village Aunties </p><p>[12:17] Challenges Faced by Girls in Today's Society </p><p>[18:00] Creating Safe Spaces for Girls through Long-Term and Ongoing Support </p><p>[26:48] Social Media Use by Teens and Navigating Belonging and Connection </p><p>[34:32] Ritualising & Normalising the First Bleed through Ceremony + Ritual </p><p>[40:22] Being a Girls Group Facilitator </p><p>[43:47] Moving into a Post-Patriarchal Society</p>
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