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The Vital Goddess

The Vital Goddess

De : Dianne Shepherd
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The Vital Goddess Podcast is a sensual, soulful space for midlife women who feel the call to come home to their bodies. Through embodiment practices, sacred feminine wisdom, Taoist and Tantric teachings, and intimate reflections, each episode invites you out of the thinking mind and into the living intelligence of your body.

This is a place to soften, remember your pleasure, reclaim your power, and explore what it truly means to live from embodied love, radiance, and desire—on your own terms.

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    • Radiance as Protection: The Third Way Beyond Fawning or Armoring
      Feb 20 2026

      We’re often taught that when conflict arises, we have two choices:

      Collapse… or armor up.

      Fawn or fight.
      Be porous or pick up the sword.

      But what if there’s a third way?

      In this episode, I share a recent boundary moment that activated an old pattern in my nervous system — and how instead of over-explaining or hardening, I brought my intensity into the temple of my practice.

      We explore:

      • Why drama that stays in the head becomes toxic
      • The difference between fawning and armoring
      • Why I’m not anti-drama — I’m pro-embodied passion
      • Kronos (linear time) vs. Kairos (sacred rhythmic time)
      • Why the problem and the solution don’t live on the same frequency
      • How nonlinear movement opens nonlinear pathways
      • Radiance as protection
      • And the third way beyond collapse or control

      You’ll also be guided through a nonlinear sensual movement practice designed to help you metabolize intensity, shift frequency, and return to coherence.

      Bring your drama to the temple of your practice.

      Shift the state.
      Move the energy.
      Anchor the womb.
      Radiate the heart.

      Protection isn’t contraction.
      It’s alignment.

      Let's dive in!

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      30 min
    • Embodiment Is the Revolution: New Moon in Aquarius • Solar Eclipse Medicine
      Feb 13 2026

      Happy Valentine’s Day, love.

      February is often called the season of love —
      a time when so much attention is placed on romance, beauty, and desire.

      And while those themes are certainly right up my alley…
      I tend to celebrate this season a little differently than what’s streaming through my inbox.

      I see it as an invitation to turn that energy inward
      and remember a deeper truth:

      Love is a state of being.

      Not a story.

      Not a performance.

      Not something to earn.

      Not something that's owed.

      A shift from Hallmark…
      to holy.

      This season, for me, is about restoring our relationship to the body as sacred, intelligent, and worthy of pleasure.

      That rings truer.
      Softer.
      More liberating.

      Love is not something we need to seek.

      It’s who we are at the core.

      And that feels like the perfect doorway into today’s episode —
      and our upcoming New Moon in Aquarius.

      This New Moon in Aquarius on February 17 arrives as a powerful solar eclipse—an initiatory moment that invites realignment, release, and forward movement.

      Eclipses tend to accelerate truth.
      They reveal what’s no longer in resonance with who we’re becoming and gently (or not so gently) usher us toward what’s next.

      With electric Aquarius energy in the air, this lunation may feel intense, catalytic, or emotionally charged. You may notice sudden clarity, restlessness, or a deep knowing that something in your life—relationships, work, identity, or old patterns—is ready to shift.

      In this episode, I offer a grounding counterpoint to the mental intensity of Aquarius: embodiment.

      Rather than trying to think our way into the future, we explore how the body holds innate wisdom—and how listening somatically can help us meet change with clarity, safety, and self-trust.

      At the heart of this episode is a 10-minute shaking medicine practice—a simple, ancient, and powerful form of somatic release used across cultures and spiritual traditions to clear stagnant energy, regulate the nervous system, and restore embodied presence.

      Shaking is not about force or performance.
      It’s about permission.
      About letting the body finish a sentence the soul has already begun.

      ✨ In This Episode, We Explore:

      • The energetic themes of the New Moon in Aquarius + solar eclipse
      • Why embodiment is essential during times of change
      • Shaking as ancient, shamanic, and deeply human medicine
      • How movement can create clarity where the mind cannot
      • A guided 10-minute shaking practice you can return to anytime

      You may find this practice especially supportive during this lunar cycle. Feel free to return to it again and again—clarity deepens through repetition.

      May this New Moon help you release what no longer aligns
      and guide you gently, powerfully, forward.

      Let's dive in!

      Dive deeper...

      I created a Shaking playlist for you!

      👉 You can download the Spotify playlist here

      The Vital Goddess Mastery program, a living temple to reclaim the sacredness of your body and the power of your pleasure. Learn more here.


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      31 min
    • Sacred Sensual Movement: Returning to the Wisdom of Your Body
      Feb 6 2026

      Let Your Body Lead

      In a world that moves at relentless speed, many of us find ourselves living almost entirely in our heads—rushing, pushing, managing time, and overriding the quiet wisdom of the body.

      In this episode, I invite you to slow down and explore sensual, non-linear movement as a gentle yet powerful pathway back into presence, healing, and inner rhythm.

      We explore the difference between Kronos time—clock time, productivity, and pressure—and Kairos time, or soul time: the spacious, cyclical rhythm where the body naturally heals, digests, and integrates life.

      Through reflection, teaching, and a guided embodied practice, you’ll be invited to release story and let sensation lead you home.

      This episode is especially supportive if you’ve been feeling:

      • overwhelmed or overstimulated
      • disconnected from your body
      • emotionally stuck or looping in your mind
      • tense, numb, or out of sync
      • curious about movement as medicine rather than exercise

      In this episode, we explore:

      • Why the body heals in Kairos time, not Kronos time
      • How digestion, repair, and emotional processing require safety and slowness
      • What “sensation over story” really means—and why it matters
      • How sensual, wave-like movement supports nervous system regulation
      • Why pleasure, breath, and rhythm are essential for modern women
      • A gentle 5-minute sensual movement practice to help you drop into soul time

      This is an invitation to let your body lead, to listen inwardly, and to reconnect with the wisdom that’s already alive within you.

      Let's dive in!

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      29 min
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