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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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  • Reclaiming Your Wild Innocence | Aries New Moon + Chiron
    Apr 17 2026

    There are moments in life when something begins to stir…

    A sense that… there’s more.

    More of you that wants to come out and play.
    More joy… waiting to be lived.

    This Aries New Moon, conjunct Chiron, opens a powerful doorway into that remembering.

    Not a call to fix yourself...
    or an invitation to endlessly revisit the past.

    But an awakening…a remembering...a calling back to the part of you that was never lost.

    In this episode, we explore the identity wound — not as something broken, but as a place where you may have left yourself in order to stay safe, loved, or connected.

    We name the “spell” many of us have lived under…
    and begin to dissolve it — not through force, but through awareness, breath, and embodiment.

    This is a path of remembrance and reclamation.

    🌍 A Collective Moment

    Since Chiron entered Aries in 2018, we’ve been in a powerful collective cycle of identity healing.

    You may have felt this as:

    • old triggers resurfacing
    • deeper emotional awareness
    • a pull toward somatic work, breathwork, and embodiment
    • a desire to live more truthfully and fully

    This New Moon offers a sense of another opening

    Not because we need to go back and dig… we’ve already done so much of that.

    We’ve seen it.
    We’ve felt it.

    🌬️ In This Episode, You’ll Experience:

    • A reframe of the identity wound as a place of self-abandonment (and return)
    • The “spell” of conditioning around who it’s safe to be
    • Why your body — especially your breath — holds this pattern
    • The connection between the solar plexus, diaphragm, and vitality
    • The link between breath, sexual energy, and aliveness
    • Why midlife can amplify this healing (and why that’s a good thing)
    • A short, guided breath practice to reconnect to your body

    🔥 Breath, Pleasure & Life Force

    Your solar plexus is also deeply connected to your sexual energy — your eros, your aliveness.

    Drawing from tantric teachings…

    we explore how holding in the solar plexus can restrict not just breath, but the natural flow of pleasure, expression, and vitality through the body.

    Reclaiming your identity…

    is also about freeing your breath and life force.

    🌹 Go Deeper: 15-Minute Breath & Sound Ritual

    If you’d like to dive deeper into this theme …

    I’ve created a 15-minute guided breath and sound journey
    to support you in softening the solar plexus, freeing the breath,
    and reconnecting to your life force.

    This is the exact practice I return to in my own life.

    Download your free guided breath journey here.

    And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast.

    When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth.

    It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel.

    I’d love to have you there.

    You can take that next step right here.


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    31 m
  • The Anointed Heart: Scent, Breath & Sensual Awakening
    Apr 3 2026

    There is a way of opening…

    A way of softening…
    that begins not in the mind…
    but in the body.

    In this episode, we explore The Anointed Heart
    a sensual, ancient pathway into presence through scent, breath, and felt experience.

    Because scent doesn’t ask you to think…
    it invites you to feel.

    And when paired with breath…
    something beautiful begins to happen.

    The nervous system softens.
    The body remembers how to receive.
    And the heart… opens naturally, from within.

    🌿 In this episode, we explore:

    • Why scent is one of the most direct pathways into the body and emotional field
    • How aroma interacts with the limbic system to bypass the thinking mind
    • The difference between performance-based breathwork and sensual, receptive breathing
    • How scent creates safety in the nervous system and deepens the breath
    • Five heart-opening essential oils
    • The ancient use of aromatic oils in ritual, healing, and embodiment
    • Why pleasure is the portal—and how to return to the body through sensation

    🌬️ Experience the Practice

    This episode includes a guided ritual—
    a simple, powerful practice to awaken pleasure, soften the body,
    and reconnect with your heart through breath and scent.

    Return to it often…
    even a few breaths can shift your state.

    🌹 Receive the Companion Guide

    I created a beautiful companion for you…

    The Anointed Heart
    a sensual guide to working with scent, breath, and the body.

    Inside you’ll find:

    • Five heart-opening essential oils
    • A simple ritual to deepen your practice
    • Guidance on choosing high-quality, ethically sourced oils

    You can receive it here

    🌊 A gentle note

    I’ll be taking a little space next week…
    heading to one of my favorite little surf beach towns with my husband…
    to rest… to connect… to breathe with the ocean…
    and refill the well.

    I’ll be back on April 17th with a new episode for the Aries New Moon. 🌑

    The heart does not open through force.

    It opens through safety.
    Through softness.
    Through presence.

    And sometimes…
    all it takes…

    is a breath…
    a scent…
    and a moment of truly being with yourself.

    🌹

    🎧 Listen, Share + Subscribe

    If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the podcast and share it with a woman who might need this reminder.

    Because when women come home to their bodies…

    everything changes.

    And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast.

    When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth.

    It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel.

    I’d love to have you there.

    You can take that next step right here.

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    26 m
  • The Radiance Code: Beauty, Safety & Radio Venus (Libra Full Moon)
    Mar 27 2026

    A Libra Full Moon transmission on beauty, safety, and tuning into the frequency of Radio Venus…

    What if beauty isn’t something you achieve…
    but something you feel?

    In this deeply nourishing Full Moon in Libra episode, I invite you into a new understanding of beauty—one that lives not in appearance or perfection, but in the body’s capacity to soften, receive, and feel safe.

    We explore how many women have been living under a subtle but powerful cultural conditioning—which I call “the spell of the patriarchy”—that pulls us out of our bodies and into performance.

    And how the true pathway back to radiance…
    is not more effort… but nourishment, kindness, and embodied presence.

    With the influence of Cancer in a dynamic Jupiter square, this lunation illuminates where we may be overextending, undernourished, or disconnected from our own needs—and gently calls us home.

    ✨ At the heart of this episode is a guided Radio Venus Meditation—a sensual, calming journey designed to help you “tune in” to the frequency of your natural beauty and inner radiance.

    This is more than a conversation…
    it’s a ritual of remembrance.

    🌕 In This Episode, We Explore:

    • The deeper meaning of the Full Moon in Libra and beauty as a felt experience
    • How “the spell of the patriarchy” disconnects us from our natural radiance
    • Why safety and nourishment (Cancer energy) are essential for feeling beautiful
    • The impact of Jupiter: where you may be overgiving or overextending
    • Sensuality as the bridge back to presence, softness, and receptivity
    • What it means to “tune into Radio Venus” and come back online in your body
    • A guided 11-minute Venusian meditation to anchor these teachings

    📡 Quote from the Episode

    “You don’t need to become more beautiful…
    you need to feel safe enough to experience the beauty that’s already here.”

    🌹 Your Full Moon Invitation

    Under this Libra Full Moon, consider:

    Where am I still performing… instead of receiving?
    Where might my body be asking for more nourishment, softness, or care?
    What would it feel like to let beauty be something I experience… rather than something I strive for?

    🎧 Listen, Share + Subscribe

    If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the podcast and share it with a woman who might need this reminder.

    Because when women come home to their bodies…

    everything changes. 🌹

    And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast.

    When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth.

    It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel.

    I’d love to have you there.

    You can take that next step right here.

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    24 m
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