Living Goddess with Chameli Gad Ardagh

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 Yoginiteam@awakeningwomen.com

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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 Yoginiteam@awakeningwomen.com

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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 Yoginiteam@awakeningwomen.com

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 Yoginiteam@awakeningwomen.com

Follow Awakening Women on Instagram

The Living Goddess podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek PodcastBath.com