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The Vital Goddess

The Vital Goddess

Dianne Shepherd 254 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

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.

Episodes

Pearl Wisdom & Devotional Bliss Under the Pisces Eclipse
Pearl Wisdom & Devotional Bliss Under the Pisces Eclipse Aug 21, 2026 1246 There is a powerful Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces inviting us to release the mind from having to know the way—and surrender into a deeper kind of intelligence.Bliss intelligence.With the Sun, Mercury and South Node gathered in Virgo and Uranus in Gemini creating an electric tension around this eclipse, we’re being invited to loosen our grip on overthinking, overanalyzing and the compulsion to
Romancing the Sacred Masculine—The Cosmic Love Affair Within
Romancing the Sacred Masculine—The Cosmic Love Affair Within Aug 14, 2026 1921 Have you ever wondered if you're too much in your masculine?Maybe you’ve tried to soften more, receive more, slow down more… or somehow find that elusive “perfect balance” between your feminine and masculine energies.But what if balance was never the goal?What if these energies were meant to be in relationship?In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the feminine and masculine
The Body Temple...Pleasure, Breath &  a Venusian Way of Manifestation
The Body Temple...Pleasure, Breath & a Venusian Way of Manifestation Aug 7, 2026 1703 The world has taught us to treat the body as a project to perfect, a problem to solve, or a tool for getting what we want.But what if the body is something far more sacred?In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, we're exploring a Venusian way of remembering the body as temple, the breath as the sacred bridge between mind and heart, and pleasure as our natural expression when resistance
The Wisdom of Sacred Pilgrimage: Coming Home to Yourself
The Wisdom of Sacred Pilgrimage: Coming Home to Yourself Jul 31, 2026 2803 A conversation with Katie DugganSome places don't simply ask us to visit...They ask us to remember.In this beautiful conversation, Katie Duggan and I explore the magic of sacred pilgrimage, the mystery of Avalon, and why stepping into a sacred landscape has the power to awaken something ancient within us.Together we explore why pilgrimage is so much more than travel.It is an inner journey.A r
Rewilding the Root: Reclaiming Our Wild Innocence Under the Aquarius Full Moon
Rewilding the Root: Reclaiming Our Wild Innocence Under the Aquarius Full Moon Jul 24, 2026 1042 What if your wild innocence never left you?Perhaps she's simply become obscured by the fog.Inspired by the Aquarius Full Moon, this episode is a gentle invitation to rewild the root, dissolve the fog of shame, and remember the exquisite aliveness that has always belonged to you.Through breath, warmth, rhythm, and movement, we explore a different path to liberation.Not through force.Not throug
The Venusian Revolution: From Resilience to Radiance
The Venusian Revolution: From Resilience to Radiance Jul 18, 2026 1198 For years we've been told that resilience is the answer.Build resilience.Become stronger.Bounce back.And while resilience has served us beautifully, what if it was never meant to be the destination?In this deeply personal episode, I share the philosophy that has quietly been weaving itself through my work for years—a way of living I now call The Venusian Revolution.This isn't about rejec
The Medicine of Beauty: Reclaiming the Sacred Rhythms of the Feminine Through Simple Daily Rituals
The Medicine of Beauty: Reclaiming the Sacred Rhythms of the Feminine Through Simple Daily Rituals Jul 10, 2026 1058 Beauty is not frivolous.Beauty is not something we earn.Beauty is not merely decoration.Beauty is medicine.In this Cancer New Moon reflection, we explore the wisdom of Vesta—the priestess asteroid associated with devotion, sacred rhythm, and tending the inner flame—and how beauty itself can become a pathway back to aliveness.Together we explore how simple daily rituals nourish the feminine nervous
Rewilding the Breath: How Sensual Breathwork Frees Our Essence, Radiance & Capacity to Receive
Rewilding the Breath: How Sensual Breathwork Frees Our Essence, Radiance & Capacity to Receive Jul 3, 2026 2215 What if one of the most overlooked gateways to vitality, radiance, pleasure, emotional fluidity, and our capacity to receive has been waiting beneath the heart all along?In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the diaphragm through a deeply feminine lens—as The Tidekeeper Within.Together we'll explore how years of responsibility, stress, held emotions, and adaptation can subt
The Erotic Renaissance of Midlife: Eros as Elemental & The Power of Venusian Practice
The Erotic Renaissance of Midlife: Eros as Elemental & The Power of Venusian Practice Jun 26, 2026 1578 What if midlife isn't the end of a woman's erotic life...but the beginning of an Erotic Renaissance?As we move toward the Capricorn Full Moon, this episode explores a different way of understanding Eros—not as something to manufacture, perform, or fix...but as an elemental force woven into the fabric of life itself.Together we explore:🌹 Why many conversations about "low libido"
Craving a Change of Atmosphere: Why Venusian Spaces Matter
Craving a Change of Atmosphere: Why Venusian Spaces Matter Jun 19, 2026 1642 What if what you're craving isn't another strategy?Not more information.Not another self-improvement project.But a different atmosphere.In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how a single doctor's appointment changed the course of my life and led me on a decades-long exploration of sacred sensuality, pleasure, feminine embodiment, and what eventually became the Vital
How Sacred Sensuality Tames the Inner Critic & Restores Your Natural Radiance
How Sacred Sensuality Tames the Inner Critic & Restores Your Natural Radiance Jun 12, 2026 2103 Women have been taught to chase beauty through self-rejection.But the feminine body blossoms through love, pleasure, and relationship.In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore how sacred sensuality can tame the inner critic and restore your natural radiance—not by fighting the mind, but by creating a different atmosphere within the body.Together we explore:Why women often struggle w
Reclaiming the Venus Codes: Dissolving the Invisible Agreements We Make About Love, Beauty & Pleasure
Reclaiming the Venus Codes: Dissolving the Invisible Agreements We Make About Love, Beauty & Pleasure Jun 5, 2026 1517 In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the invisible agreements we unconsciously make around beauty, worth, desire, pleasure, and love — and how those agreements begin shaping not only the nervous system and body… but the way we perceive ourselves and experience life itself.These agreements often form early.Through heartbreak.Shame.Comparison.Criticism.Objectification.Performance

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