ReBloom Our World

If you're holding a dream that feels both impossible and essential…If you think (in your very smart strategic scheming mind) that you've got a surefire path to achieving that dream that has everything to do with work. Hard work…If you know deep in your bones (despite your very smart strategic mind) that life's Big Gifts tend to be offered by way of resonance far more than clenched fist attachments…If you miss sitting at your auntie's kitchen table with a cup of Wild Sweet Orange tea, listening to her riveting stories of mystical encounters and fated characters… (or you never had that auntie, always longed for her)…In this podcast episode, I share the wild, serendipitous tale of how Seann and I ended up moving to a real life village.For a while there, I (like you perhaps?) forgot to practice my magic.Stuck in the rut of linear, individualistic, capitalistic approaches to change (self-extraction as an extreme sport, ya know?), I convinced myself that to get to a village would require buying the land, gathering the people, and starting everything from scratch on my own.Ha! I convinced myself (scratch that, capitalism convinced me) that the way to the Other World was with the means of This World.Audre Lorde was wise when she said, the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.We are living in a collective house stripped of spirit or magic, built on the foundations of pressure, force and disembodied exploitation.Maybe our minds have been brainwashed into believing we can “achieve” the New World with the tools of the Old… but our spirits? They know the truth.This episode is a story for your soul.If your dream feels out of reach…If your heart is starved for story…If you're chasing money as the means to your soul's end……and you wanna remember the magic of Life itself, and the way Life wants to partner with you, play Yenta between you and your visions.Press play. Tune in. 40 minutes from now, you might feel like a renewed human.With wild love & a heart full of trust.xox,RachaelPS – Doors are open for CEO Coven. A 6-month mentorship program that includes transformative 1:1 sessions as well as potent group councils and rituals (and more). If you're a CEO (experienced coach, therapist, creator or business owner) who's ready to rebloom your world (personal and/or professional) and infuse your life with more magic, press reply. I'll send you the details. We begin mid-May. $15k. Epic support to birth your next chapter.PPS – Are you listening to these podcasts?!?! Are you loving them?? Would you press reply and/or comment and share the impact? This is new territory for me. I'm loving it, AND feel vulnerable doing it. I'd love your engagement / encouragement if you wanna dish some juice my way. Thank youuuu, beloved.

Seann was in a session with one of my fave coaches ever the other day, and she said to him… “I think a lot of people are afraid to say no to what's really good, in order to say yes to what would be really REALLY good.”When he told me that line, I thought, that sums up the last few months of my life.Mustering the courage to…Say no to the really good of our previous home, to say yes to the really REALLY good of living in a village.Say no to the really good of the Coach Training, to say yes to the really REALLY good of more creative time, space for my body, and rest, play and renewal.Say no to the really good of a few other private things, to say yes to the really REALLY good of what felt even more like rapture pulsing through my body.In today's Dance Temple, I invite you to push your furniture to the edges of the biggest room in your house and see if you can let yourself move into the energy of really REALLY good.What would it feel like in your body, in your subtle expression, in the way you let yourself fully feel your emotions… to go for really really good.And what if, in letting yourself say yes to being THAT unapologetically true in your dance, you could begin to do the same in your life?If you'd like, you can set up a small altar near your dance floor and write on a few slips of paper things that are “really good” in your life right now, but that could be really REALLY good if you were willing to make a shift.The nature of your sex life.The relationship with your bestie.A certain element in your business.(And PS – sometimes the really good we're called to let go of is the performance of everything being okay… and the really REALLY good that would set our souls ablaze is entering the fertile dark of whatever shadows we've been avoiding. Sometimes the really REALLY good is simple: being with the liberatory power of Truth.)Let your dance be at the edges of your expression. Whether dark or light.Go to the frontier of your really really good – an unapologetic marriage of soul and body.No matter how big or small you desire to authentically dance.No matter how fast or slow, sensual, silly or stormy.There's no “right way” to experience the really really good.Only the true way for you, today.Go on.Let yourself have it.Here's the playlist. 44 minutes of magic.Enjoy!Big love,RachaelPS – If this is your first Dance Temple, click here to listen to the Intro to the Practice, and set yourself up for an amazing experience. Get full access to The ReBloom Newsletter at rachaelmaddox.substack.com/subscribe

Sometimes, it's hard to let yourself crack.To crack open to your tenderness, tucked safely behind walls of protection.To crack into the gooey center of your humanity, and stay sensitive to both the cheeky grin on your beautiful puppy's face, and the faces of Ukrainian children cradled in fear.Other times, you can't help yourself, the push was just too much, something cracked you from the outside, you wish your insides could run back in but they're out now and they're everywhere, no stuffing them into polite submission.I recorded this Dance Temple about 2 weeks ago on the heels of getting some not-great news, in the midst of feeling like my world was falling apart.And I share it with you today, as an offering to our collective.Maybe as you face our world, there's some part inside that really wants to hide.Or maybe there's a part of you that simply cannot retreat; a part that's cracked open like it or not, so now what with all these feral feelings?Whether you need to crack or you can't turn back – music can hold what's too big to hold alone.Here's a gentle way in.Here's a place to begin.Tune in above with this 5 minute Dance Temple Sermon first (you can clear your living room floor and light a few candles while you listen!), then click over to this 39 minute Dance Temple Set.Sending you lots of love amidst it all.May the music help you move through what's too much to hold in.Big love,RachaelPS – If you missed it, you can listen to the Intro to the ReBloom Dance Temple right here, or the first Dance Temple on Radical Self-Consent right here. Get full access to The ReBloom Newsletter at rachaelmaddox.substack.com/subscribe

This is for you if your body needs to move…This is for you if you miss sweating with strangers in smoky night clubs or on Sunday mornings, like a prayer…This is for you if your joints ache or you've put on an uncomfortable amount of weight* or you just don't feel like yourself these days…This is for you if under all that intellectual understanding, you've got an ocean of emotion that just needs to move without having to say another damn word…My first Dance Temple sermon is all about Radical Self-Consent.Moving your body (or not) in a way that's attuned to the truth of the impulses and desires, feelings and fires of the moment.And as you do, your Life-force starts to realign. Your dignity re-embodies.Press play on the podcast above for the sermon, then head RIGHT HERE for a 30-minute playlist from my soul to yours.Click this link for the playlist!I hope this practice is medicine for you. It's a gift and joy for me to create.Please feel free to share how your practice was in the comments below!

Beloveds!I am so excited to be sending this special creation your way.A month or so ago, my soul started… shouting. One word.Loud and clear:Dance.With nearly 2-years of collective trauma and stress built up like gunky blah stuck to my bones, I felt not only ready… but frankly, desperate.My own internal tide had turned, and Life Life Life wanted to undulate through me, possibly more than ever before.So. I started making myself these mini dance sets in the spirit of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms. 30 minutes. Nothing too intimidating. I just pushed all my furniture to the side of the living room, vacuumed the floor, lit some candles… and poof! Created myself a Dance Temple.In today's episode I share with you exactly how to:Turn your living room into a Dance TempleLet your body lead you in authentic expressive movementAnd grant yourself permission to give up on looking good, for the sake of feeling aliveIf after this short introduction to the Dance Temple practice, you're feeling eager to move your booty… praise goddess. Check out my next email/post/podcast for the very first ReBloom Dance Temple! (Coming to your Inbox shortly.)It's a mini sermon on Radical Self Consent, plus an evocative playlist meant to help you feel your feels through the body.Because this has been a lot, but we're still here.Because our bodies have held so much, and we can help them let go of some of the weight.Because dance is medicine for reallll for real, especially when it's about letting yourself feel your frickin' feels.I love you.And… as Lee Ann Womack once sang, I hope you DAAANNNNCEEEEE.xox,RachaelPS! – If you're an experienced coach, therapist or guide ready to become a real life alchemical trauma witch… as in, able to respond to trauma at the body-level with your clients and facilitate somatic and soul-level resolution… apply to the ReBloom Coach Training by Feb 1 for an extended payment plan. Our 2022 cohort begins this May, and is currently half-way full! Get full access to The ReBloom Newsletter at rachaelmaddox.substack.com/subscribe

Hey beloveds!,I come to you with Episode 2 of the ReBloom Our World podcast: Rituals for Digesting & Resting amidst Big Change.Today's episode is all about the nervous system science of growth, expansion and change… how we need to digest and rest (contract in a healthy way), in order to make our next outward moves, or else our expansion will pop us out into dysregulation.If you've ever: Secretly sabotaged amidst positive changeFelt compelled to keep opening, opening, opening after making a big move, but then crashed like a mofo because your nervous system couldn't take itThought something was wrong with you for not being able to “keep up” with the hyper productive pace of capitalismOr felt like even though you WANT to rest, you just can't turn your dial down… it doesn't feel safe to slow… this episode is for you!Funny story: I tried to make this episode last week, but it felt like a push. It felt like the opposite of digested and rested. It felt like following the timeline of capitalism rather than the timeline of my body. So I paused. So I digested and rested more, more, more. I waited for my body to actually desire this next creative expansion… rather than succumbing to the pressure of my brainwashed mind. :)And as a result: I've created something for you and me both that comes from a place of nourishment. I hope you receive it as such!On that note, I have no clue how often you can expect a podcast episode from me. I'm still integrating the change of having this podcast in my life, and only intend to create from a place of ease and pleasure here. How wonderful, ey?I'd love to hear how this episode lands for you in the comments below. And if you have a friend who would benefit from this medicine, I'd be grateful if you shared!Sending much love your way.Shabbat Shalom… may you rest and receive this Sabbath.xox,RachaelPS! – I'm moving next weekend. Away from the ocean, to a VILLAGE ON THE LAND with 20+ other humans, chickens, goats, bees, gardens. It's a dream come true, and ALSO, omg so scary and stressful. Big change. You better BELIEVE I'm doing this digestion & rest ritual daily. It's helping me. I hope it helps you, too.PPS – The 2022 cohort of the ReBloom Coach Training is about half-way full. This program is a 20-month certification program for experienced coaches, therapists, healers & guides who are ready to rebloom their whole damn life. If you're up for a personal & professional initiation into your next most potent medicine… alongside a coven of brilliant world-changing witches… inside a community with deep values in collective care and liberation… and a devotion to developing alchemical skills for working somatically with the nervous system… our garden gates are open to you! You can start with Level 1 (8 months), and decide if you wanna go all in on Level 2 and certification from there. Read our thorough program page here, and apply by Feb 1 for great payment plan options. xoxo!! Get full access to The ReBloom Newsletter at rachaelmaddox.substack.com/subscribe

What is UP, beloveds!I'm not here to preach some new year, new you mumbo jumbo. It's winter, and very well possible that all you wanna do is let yourself rest amidst the darkest days of the year. I'm into it. I've been sleeping in ‘til 10am. And ALSO, I personally love using the first week or so of the year to do something immersive — be it learning, embodied or creative — that's just for me.And this year, as my fiancé dove into a week-long book-writing immersion, I felt called to do something I've been wanting to do for years.Finally start a podcast.And guess what? It's Thursday, Day 4 of my Podcast Immersion Week.On Day 1 I had nothing. Not even a plan.(Okay, that's not true. I had a mental catalogue of the tens of notebooks I've filled over the years, all with endless ideas, dreams and visions for a podcast. As well as a creeping feeling that I was a creative fraud and would simply never fulfill on my desire.)Today, I present to you my first-ever official podcast episode.Whhaaaaaatttt??How did I get from Monday (feeling like a constipated creative fraud), to Thursday (emailing my first podcast to my whole list)?!?!All my secrets are revealed, in the episode above!If you have a creative, business or adventurous dream that you've been saying for years you want to do, but haven't done, this episode is for you.If you have fantasies about your not-yet-created book/podcast/album/business having a significant impact, being wildly praised, or making you semi-famous, tune in.If you compare yourself to your idols, and then don't make your art because you don't think you're good enough, I get it. Same. I made this very first episode for you and me both.If you get stuck in the details — how good the branding looks, how nice the mic quality sounds, how to piece it all together until it's so incredibly perfect that EVERYONE WILL LOVE IT AND YOU WILL BE SAFE FOREVERMORE… may the stories and tips in this podcast episode liberate you into something even better than safety: the soul satisfaction of making and sharing your art.Because here's the thing:Life is unpredictable, and no one knows how much time they really have here. Fame is scarce, and we likely won't reach it. Your idols also started scared, intimidated and feeling not exactly good enough. And no one cares about the perfect details.People — the people you dream of impacting with your creation — care about your essence.They care about your whole holy point, which will come through your art whether you have the perfect mic, the perfect edits, the perfect photos, or not.If you're itching to birth the creation of your dreams, but get stopped by a zillion silly little things… tune in. I'm giving you the gift of my creative imperfection —— to help you feel brave enough to give yours, too.I love you.Happy New Year.xo,RachaelPS!!! – I talk all about this on this first podcast episode, but hey! Did you notice I'm using a new platform? It's called Substack and it actually solved my creative podcast constipation. If you've specifically been putting off starting a podcast, tune into the episode to hear the ever-so-liberating Substack hack. PPS – Also notice how my Substack page isn't finished being set up, but I've sent it to you, anyway? The Muse doesn't care about things feeling finished. She cares about inspired action.Final PS – This podcast will be available on iTunes in like a day… again, notice how I didn't wait until everything was everywhere? And I just pressed SEND??? Anything's possible. Let yourself free.LAST PS – Shout out to Angela Lauria, QUEEN of all things getting your magic out there fast & fabulous.The ReBloom Newsletter is a free treasure trove of medicine for World Changing Witches. To receive weekly DANCE TEMPLE podcasts, consider becoming a paid subscriber.Did you love my first ever podcast?! Sharing is caring, sweetheart. Get full access to The ReBloom Newsletter at rachaelmaddox.substack.com/subscribe