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PODCAST

The Vital Goddess

Dianne Shepherd

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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All Episodes

24:25

The Radiance Code: Beauty, Safety & Radio Venus...

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2026/03/27

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 “th...

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30:10

The Venusian Revolution & The Venus Rose Path: Five...

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2026/03/20

Midlife is often the moment when a woman stops living the life she was taught to perform… and begins walking the path her soul came here to embody. If you’ve found yourself wondering: What is happening to me? Why doesn’t my life fit the way it used to? Why do I feel both empty… and like I’m just getting started? This one's for you. In this episode, I introduce what I call the Venusian Revolution — a return to the body, where truth lives, pleasure flows, and love leads....

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25:41

Let the Body Lead: Dreaming with the Pisces New Moon

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2026/03/13

The dream of this moment isn’t just asking to be imagined. It’s asking to be embodied. We are living through extraordinary times. The tides are shifting. Old structures are loosening their grip. And many women are feeling a quiet but powerful call to reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies. In this episode, we explore the magic of the Pisces New Moon and the powerful cosmic moment unfolding as we move toward the Aries Equinox and the meeting of Neptune and Saturn — the dreamer and the build...

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30:35

Pleasure is Your Body's Yes | Activating the Sacred...

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2026/03/06

There is so much cultural conversation about pleasure. How to create more of it. How to perform it. How to optimize it. But very little about how to listen for it. In this episode, we explore a quieter, more powerful truth: Pleasure is not something you manufacture. It is something you allow. And something you gently cultivate through presence. Dianne guides you into a new understanding of pleasure as sacred biology — not indulgence, not performance — but information. We explore: ...

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32:46

Womb as Truth Anchor︱A Virgo Full Moon Eclipse Ritual

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2026/02/27

This Virgo Full Moon on March 3rd carries the potency of a lunar eclipse — a portal of refinement, revelation, and sacred release. Eclipses can feel like a bit of a wild card. But they don’t create change from nothing. They illuminate what has already been loosening. In this episode, we move beyond the surface story of Virgo as perfectionist and reconnect with her deeper archetype: the Priestess. The keeper of sacred order. The guardian of discernment. The one who tends the inner ...

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29:49

Radiance as Protection: The Third Way Beyond Fawning...

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2026/02/20

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 toxicThe difference between fawning and armoringWhy I’m not a...

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31:25

Embodiment Is the Revolution: New Moon in Aquarius •...

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2026/02/13

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...

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29:04

Sacred Sensual Movement: Returning to the Wisdom of...

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2026/02/06

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, c...

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28:34

Radiant Self-Love: When Love Is Liberation/ Full Moon...

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2026/01/30

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 l...

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27:34

Breathe Like a Goddess; The Ancient Art of Sensual...

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2026/01/23

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...

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23:05

Building a Legacy of Love/ New Moon in Capricorn,...

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2026/01/16

What if legacy wasn’t about striving… but about how you love? In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, I’m sharing a New Moon reflection inspired by the upcoming New Moon in Capricorn — a lunation that invites us to root into what we’re building long-term, not just in our work or goals, but in our bodies, our relationships, and the way we move through life. You don’t need to follow astrology for this episode to land. I share how tuning into the rhythm of the New Moon and Full...

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22:14

Jade Egg as Movement Medicine/ Restoring Pelvic...

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2026/01/09

This week on the pod I dive into a topic I’m super passionate about: The Taoist Jade Egg practice. In this episode, I share the heart of my approach to working with the Jade Egg through breath, flow, subtle movement, deep listening & self love. Rather than training the body to perform, this work is about restoring relationship with your inner landscape so safety, trust, sensation and vitality can return naturally. I introduce Jade Rebirth, my embodied approach to teaching the Taoist...

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22:23

Sacred Integration: Strength, Softness & the Super...

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2026/01/02

Happy New Year! 🎉 And Happy Full Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋ In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026. Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm. With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and...

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36:09

Pleasure Is the Portal: Bringing Your 2026 Mantra to...

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2025/12/19

As we close out 2025 and stand at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, this episode offers a gentle, embodied way to meet the year ahead. If you’ve chosen a word or mantra for 2026 but it hasn’t quite landed in your body yet, this one's for you. In this final episode of the year, Dianne explores why pleasure is the missing link in manifestation and how intentions come alive when the body is included. Inspired by the idea that affirmations are most powerful when we’re “in the vortex,” this ep...

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28:34

Slow Down and Rejuvenate: A Solstice Breathwork...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/12/12

In this episode, we slow down together for a deeply nourishing end-of-year ritual designed for women in midlife. As the Solstice approaches and the year begins to close, your body often wants softness, warmth and replenishment more than pressure or resolutions. This episode honors that need with a sensual Taoist practice called Kidney Breathing. It is one of the most restorative feminine practices for rebuilding vitality, sensuality, and emotional resilience. We begin by acknowledging w...

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28:09

The Voice Beneath Your Voice: Awakening the Feminine...

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2025/12/05

In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful mysteries of the feminine body: Your true voice doesn’t begin in your throat. It rises from your yoni, your womb, and your heart. And only then becomes sound. If you’ve ever felt silenced, unsure, disconnected from your truth, or stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing… this episode will feel like a homecoming. Together, we’ll explore: 🌹 The real origin of your voice: and why the throat is actually the final expression, ...

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21:49

Your Body Remembers: Reclaiming Sensual Instinct...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/11/28

In this episode, we explore one of the deepest truths of midlife awakening: Your body remembers. 💗 In This Episode, You’ll Discover: Why midlife isn't a decline but a sensual reawakeningHow disconnection is a survival strategy, not a personal failureThe truth that your erotic nature is encoded in your bodyA soothing Sensual Breath ritual to open warmth, sensation, and rememberingHow to gently notice the first signs of your sensual awakeningWhy your body is leading you back to yourselfAnd

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29:54

Soft Power: How Midlife Awakening Makes You More...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/11/21

Take a slow breath and settle into your body… because today’s episode opens a doorway into one of the most potent feminine truths of midlife: You don’t have to push to be powerful. You don’t have to perform to be magnetic. You don’t have to harden to be respected. Here we’ll explore the awakening of Soft Power—the natural, sensual, sovereign magnetism that arises in midlife when you stop living for everyone else… and begin belonging to yourself again. Soft Power is your birthright...

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22:51

Manifest Like a Goddess/Claiming Your Dark Feminine...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/11/07

I’m sure you’ve played with manifestation. At least a bit. Or at the very least your've entertained the idea that there might be something to it. But I’m pretty sure you haven’t tasted the depth of what’s possible when you truly get real with your desires. Yet. This is the realm of your Dark Feminine. The Law of Attraction is real and it's the most powerful law in the Universe. I think Albert Einstein says it best: "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the fre...

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38:29

Healing & Thriving for Cycle-Breaking Women With...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/10/31

Carla Shohet is on a mission to help cycle-breaking women heal from the past so they can truly thrive. As a trauma psychologist, educator, a mom and a survivor of childhood narcissistic abuse Carla brings a soulful, heart-centered and passionate approach to the realm of trauma healing. Carla is not your typical talk therapist. She's a holistic psychologist; a mind/body healing mentor with the warmth, and generosity of a woman who's truly got your back. She uses a variety of modali...

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