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The Vital Goddess

The Vital Goddess

Written by: 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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Episodes
  • 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 mins
  • Radiant Self-Love: When Love Is Liberation/ Full Moon in Leo & Venus in Aquarius
    Jan 30 2026

    Under this luminous Full Moon in Leo on February 1st, we’re invited to return to a deeper, truer experience of self-love — not as something we earn or perform, but as something we emanate.

    This episode explores love as a living, embodied frequency rather than an act of self-sacrifice. With Venus traveling through Aquarius, a powerful reframe comes online:

    My love is liberation.

    Together, Leo and Aquarius remind us that joy is not the reward for giving — it is the source from which authentic love flows.

    In this episode, we explore:

    • How so many women were conditioned to equate love with depletion
    • Why midlife often marks a sacred turning point where over-giving no longer works
    • The heart and breasts as powerful, energetic centers of embodied love
    • Why eros and pleasure are essential nutrients for a radiant, spacious heart
    • How ancient priestess wisdom honored sensuality as sacred power
    • A gentle, fully PG Tantric breast and heart meditation to reconnect you to your inner source

    When eros, heart, and pleasure are integrated, love becomes expansive rather than draining — a natural offering rather than a sacrifice.

    This Full Moon is not asking you to shine harder.
    It’s asking you to shine freer.

    🌹 Embodiment Practice Included

    This episode features a short, gentle PG Tantric Breast & Heart Meditation designed to:

    • Nourish the heart
    • Restore a sense of safety and warmth in the body
    • Reconnect love with pleasure rather than obligation

    This practice can be done fully clothed, seated or lying down, and is always invitational.

    🐍 Ancient Lineage Remembered

    We also touch on ancient goddess cultures, including the wisdom embodied by priestess traditions, where exposed breasts symbolized life force, nourishment, and sacred power — not performance, but presence.

    This is not something new we are learning.
    It is ancient wisdom we are remembering through the body.

    So many of us were taught that love requires depletion.
    This lunation offers a different truth.

    Happy Full Moon, love.

    Let's dive in.

    Dive deeper:

    Join us in 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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    29 mins
  • Breathe Like a Goddess; The Ancient Art of Sensual Breathwork
    Jan 23 2026

    What if breathwork wasn’t something you did
    but a journey you entered?

    In this episode, Dianne invites you into the ancient, feminine art of sensual breathwork — a gentle yet powerful way to shift states, soften the nervous system, and come home to the body.

    We explore conscious connected breathing (CCB), where the inhale flows seamlessly into the exhale like a wave, guiding you out of the thinking mind and into deeper, more intuitive states of awareness. Not through force or catharsis, but through presence, rhythm, and safety.

    You’ll learn why nasal breathing is so supportive for the nervous system, encouraging diaphragmatic breath, coherence, and the cultivation of nitric oxide, sometimes called the “miracle molecule” , which helps signal relaxation, circulation, vitality and ease in the body.

    We also explore sensuality as sacred technology, with a special focus on scent. Aromatherapy has been used for thousands of years in women’s spiritual practices, including in Goddess cultures like ancient Crete, where aromatic oils were ritual allies for devotion, embodiment, and altered states.

    Scent bypasses the thinking mind and speaks directly to pleasure, memory, and intuition. When paired with breath, it becomes a powerful portal into the sacred feminine.

    ✨ In this episode, you’ll experience:

    • Why conscious connected breath gently shifts states of awareness
    • The power of nasal breathing for nervous system regulation
    • How scent activates sensuality, intuition, and pleasure
    • A 5 minute guided Sensual Breath practice to help you soften, descend, and journey inward
    • An invitation to explore what brings you into a swoon

    Altered states don’t require effort, force or even plant medicine.
    They require permission & presence.

    Choose a scent you love, press play and let your breath lead you home.

    Let's dive in!

    Dive deeper:

    Join us in the Vital Goddess Mastery program Spring 2026 here

    Explore the Taste of the Temple offer here

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    28 mins
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