Welcome to episode #9!
Today is a very special interview with the Grandmother of our moon dance, Vanessa Calderón. Co-host, Marian Paniagua, interviews Vanessa about many topics including the use of ancient tools in the ceremonies, what the dance circle is meant to activate, and why she is "not a teacher" even though we learn SO MUCH by listening to her!
Co-host, Mya, is entering her first year as a dancer and Co-host, Marian, is entering her fifth year of initiation within Vanessa’s circle.
Vanessa is the grandmother guide of the Tlahuizpapalotl Moon Dance, a dance circle that began in 2011. She is a midwife, dancer, artisan, promoter of fair trade and world traveler with the purpose of promoting circles of reconnection with Mother Earth and our spiritual reality.
You can read about Vanessa on her website here.
Make sure to check out Our amazing wellness guide to Costa Rica, which features an experiences that give you access to the wisdom of the moon dance. You are sure to receive an aligned and authentic, connected experience with our wellness retreat program.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Today we invited our first guest to be interviewed on the podcast! We are thrilled Jerad is our first. He is such a kind and wise man. Jerad is an entrepreneur, Sound Therapist, and a highly skilled Martial Artist (BJJ Black Belt)!
In this episode Jerad shared his wisdom from serving the women of the moon dance. If you do not know what the moon dance is we encourage you to go listen to episode #2 now!
At the time of recording Mya was still contemplating committing to the moon dance for the fall of 2023. This interview provides some beautiful perspective from a fire keeper of the moon dance.
Yes! The moon dance includes men. The men have a crucial role in the success of the moon dance. Jerad shares a peak into why his role is so rewarding for him.
We also get inspired by what Jerad does for a living. His expertise in sound and working work with vibration is so fascinating to learn more about.
Did you listen and are ready for more Jerad? You can find Jerad Ports and his partner, Laura Méndez, the founders of Pura Vida Vibrations, in the Guanacaste Region of Costa Rica.
The talented couple offer sound healing and breath work sessions.
To further connect with Laura and Jerad and their vibrational frequency mastery check out
https://www.instagram.com/puravidavibrations
Make sure to check out Our amazing new wellness guide to Costa Rica, which features an experience with Pura Vida Vibrations. You are sure to receive an aligned and authentic, connected experience with our wellness retreat program.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
This is the opening meditation for episode 6. Marian Paniagua channels opening meditations for all of our podcast interviews and we feel they are so good we would love you to benefit from them too!
You can listen to this meditation on Spotify or Apple Podcast.
About your hosts: Mya and Marian
We are two same-age entrepreneurs working in the wellness, travel, and real estate spaces. We are combining our love of personal development, nature, and beauty into one beautiful conversation. None of these conversations are scripted. We speak as it flows and from our hearts and we reserve the right to change our opinion at any moment. We are women in our power and sharing our authentic journey!
Make sure to check out Our amazing new wellness guide to Costa Rica, which is always being enriched as our breath and depth of offerings grow. You are sure to receive an aligned and authentic, connected experience with our wellness retreat program.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
This is the first opening meditation we are sharing with you. Marian Paniagua channels opening meditations for all of our podcast interviews and we feel they are so good we would love you to benefit from them too!
You can listen to this meditation on Spotify or Apple Podcast.
About your hosts: Mya and Marian
We are two same-age entrepreneurs working in the wellness, travel, and real estate spaces. We are combining our love of personal development, nature, and beauty into one beautiful conversation. None of these conversations are scripted. We speak as it flows and from our hearts and we reserve the right to change our opinion at any moment. We are women in our power and sharing our authentic journey!
Make sure to check out Our amazing new wellness guide to Costa Rica, which is always being enriched as our breath and depth of offerings grow. You are sure to receive an aligned and authentic, connected experience with our wellness retreat program.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Welcome to Episode #5.
You can listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Today, you will hear Mya’s story of “leaning in” from an evolved perspective. This is not about women bulldozing men out of the way anymore, but about creating different structures.
Marian and I are in this creation process and we have come up with two words that are guiding what we are doing: Wealth (and more than material wealth) & Wellness (in health, community, and environment).
This episode is about getting to know our female perspectives on a deeper level. This will include some of our triggers and past triggers that we are alchemizing authentically in real time.
Make sure to check out Our amazing new wellness guide to Costa Rica, which is always being enriched as our breath and depth of offerings grow. You are sure to receive an aligned and authentic, connected experience with our wellness retreat program.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Welcome back!
This is officially Episode #4.
Today, Marian started the pre-episode fun for us by giving me a full training in lighting and holding ceremony with the sacred feminine fire. We are talking about a REAL fire, in a fire holder called a Sahumador.
Marian has been highly initiated in the practice of lighting the Sahumador and she has been guiding Mya to create her own practice.
If you didn’t know already, Mya is on a journey this year with Marian as her guide. An initiation in the ways of the divine feminine. We love sharing the process of this initiation WITH you and we encourage you to reach out with any questions about creating your own sacred feminine practices.
Here are some link-outs we promised we would share from this podcast.
Our amazing new wellness guide to Costa Rica
One of our fave clients of 2022, Eden Carpenter, Human Design teacher.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
Vibe of this episode (by Mya) : "An idea is an entity." - Quote from Elizabeth Gilbert's book BIG MAGIC
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Welcome back!
It is a brand new year and so much has happened already. This is 2023 and we have decided to start by sharing that
This is officially Episode #3.
This is the story of our January 6th, 2023 psychedelic mushroom experience.
Whatever you might think about psychedelics I assure you our podcast is going to shift your ideas. In this conversation Mya reveals the details of her first time ingesting a psilocybin rich mushroom harvested from Costa Rican.
Her experience was not what she had expected and it is also very revealing as to the ideas we have about psychedelics in general.
Marian teases out much of the fun that happened and how it ties into the greater picture of what Mya and Marian are building together for their guests who travel to beautiful Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
In this episode we shared a few people with you, including
Tanya Belz Rauz of Sage Brush Art Studio
Lau and Jared of Pura Vida Vibrations
And music we laughed and cried to including,
Les Poissons Voyageurs (Marian’s song!)
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
Fave quote from this episode (by Marian) : "The superpowers of mushrooms is that they are like children…they come into your body and they know exactly where to see the things that you need to see that you are not seeing and they show it to you in a sweet way."
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Welcome back!
Last month we shared our story in Episode #1. We had such a fun time that we are back again 1 month later with another episode.
This is officially Episode #2.
This is the story of Marian's moon dance experience.
Her story is raw, real, and freshly downloaded on a special Monday morning in December of 2022. The Moon Dance is an ancient initiation for women that is occurring in many countries around the world. It is becoming more accessible as more women seek initiation to the highest level and become a Grandmother. We encourage you to dig deeper into the topic of the moon dance if you feel called. Perhaps, learning about the moon dance will change everything for you.
Here is a link to learn more about the Costa Rican moon dance that Marian attends led by Grandmother Vanessa Calderon:
https://www.danzadelalunacr.com/
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
Fave quote from this episode (from Marian): "You'll get there and you see energy at work, you see energy moving, you see how the Grandmother just shifts the energy of the room just with her presence without saying a word..."
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle
To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats
Welcome to our podcast! When we met for a month of Costa Rican beachside, sunrise yoga lessons during an escape from the pandemic lockdowns of Canada little did we know we were meeting a soul sister. Marian and Mya has become synonymous with deep conversations, high vibe moments, fitness, wellness and love. Every time we would come together our small circles would expand and fill up with all manners of expansion.
Together we are so much more than the sum of our individual selves, so we thought, what the hey, let's share our combined selves with the world. Let's record our conversations.
This is episode #1.
This is our story.
While we both have epic individual stories, it is our story of meeting that we love the most. If you think about it, the odds of us meeting and forming such a deep and wonderful connection were not in our favour.
Mya, a Canadian mother of two.
Marian, a Costa Rican mother of one.
Both forging their unique paths.
Our meeting and synching up in business and life is truly the universe at play, giving us permission to play.
We invite you to come and bathe in the frequency of PLAY. That is our signature. We dance, we light up our divine feminine fires, and we play!
Fave quote from this episode (from Marian): "An alter in a sacred space is like creating a hole in the aura of the earth for light to come through, through the power of our intention."
To follow us there are 2 wonderful places on Instagram: Marian's @joy_of_life_costrica, Mya's @mya_pearle
To connect about coming to experience a Joy of Life Retreat with our team reach out via the Ralia Retreats website or follow @raliaretreats