North Node: The Yoga & Astrology Podcast
Our intention is to bring insightful, down-to-earth, but deep soul conversations, exploring how you can connect and stay on purpose with your True North Alignment through the transformative lenses of yoga and astrology.
Episodes
64 episodes
Episode 64 - When the Fire Horse Arrives: February’s Destiny Gate
In this solo episode, I explore February as a threshold, a moment where long-held inner processes give way to decisive outer movement.We close the Year of the Wood Snake, a Yin year of shedding, strategy, and quiet preparat...
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Episode 63: Clear the Drawer, Clear the Field: Saucha in Modern Life
In this episode, we explore the yogic principle of Saucha — often translated as cleanliness or purity — and why it has very little to do with perfection, and everything to do with clarity.Saucha is one of the Niyamas in yoga, but ...
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Episode 62 - Drishti & Devotion: Choosing What You Give Your Life Force To
In this episode, we explore drishti — the yogic practice of focusing the gaze — and how it extends far beyond the mat into the way we live, choose, pray, and create.Drishti is not just about where the eyes look, but about where ou...
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Episode 61: From the Year of the Wood Snake into the Fire Horse and what that really means
As we reach the end of the Year of the Wood Snake, we pause to honour what has been shed.The Snake teaches us about quiet transformation—about loss, endings, and the slow, sometimes uncomfortable process of releasing skins that no...
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Episode 60: Holy Hope - A Transmission About the Energy of Hope & Why It's So Needed Right Now
This solo episode with Becky is a bonus episode - it's an excerpt from a recent ceremony Becky hosted for charity online at the beginning of December. The words work beyond the mind, speaking directly to the body, the nervous system...
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Episode 59: What 2025 Has Taught Us: An End of Year Reflection
As the year comes to a close, Becky and I sit down to reflect on what 2025 has asked of us — and what it’s taught us about our capacity to change and adapt. We talk honestly about forced action, big decisions, and the slow shift away from self-...
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Episode 58: Ritual - Why It Matters in Modern Life
In this episode, we explore ritual as one of humanity’s oldest technologies for care, meaning, and belonging. Long before productivity and self-optimization, ritual existed to mark transitions — births, deaths, initiations, losses, endings, and...
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Episode 57: The Real Roots of Christmas: Solstice, Witchcraft & the Forgotten English Traditions
This solo episode with Becky dives beneath the Christmas lights and tinsel to reveal the much older magic this season is built on. We go back to England’s native spiritual roots, the pre-Celtic, land-based, water-honouring traditions that sh...
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Episode 56: The Body Keeps the Score (and what that really means)
This episode is a deep dive into the fascinating truth that the body is the subconscious mind — and whatever emotions we don’t process, the body stores. Drawing on trauma psychology, polyvagal theory, somatics, and yoga philosophy, we explore h...
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Episode 55: Loosening the Ego’s Grip
In this episode, we explore the ego—what it actually is, why it shows up so strongly, and how to loosen its grip so you can live with more joy, connection, and mental clarity. Instead of seeing the ego as “bad,” we break down its true purpose a...
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Episode 54: Supporting Our Men: Why Emotional Literacy Matters
Trigger Warning: Suicide and mental health.In this solo episode, Laura opens up about a crisis she can no longer stay silent on: the emotional suffering of men and the rising rates of male suicide. She explores why so many men f...
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Episode 53 : Dharma, Separation & the Ripple Effect, What We’re Really Here To Do
In this episode, we explore the deeper truth of dharma and the ripple effect — not as a metaphor, but as the lived reality of being human.We talk about how every one of us begins life in unity, arriving from Source and entering th...
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Episode 52: Compassion, The Medicine of the Heart
In this episode, we explore compassion not as an idea to grasp, but as a vibration to embody. Through the lens of yoga philosophy and astrology, we look at how the heart opens when we stop trying to understand compassion ...
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Episode 51: Halloween, Samhain & The Descent Into Scorpio Season
Every year, when the clocks fall back and the nights stretch long, we cross an ancient threshold, and into Scorpio season, into darkness, into the underworld of our own becoming.In this solo episode, Becky unravels the true origins of Sa...
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Episode 50: What 'Spiritual Awakening' really means
Spiritual awakening isn’t all light and bliss — it’s often the moment life cracks us open. In this episode, we explore what it really means to awaken: the dissolving of old identities, the chaos that comes before clarity, and the deep remembran...
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Episode 49: What is Your Star Sign Really...
Everyone knows their star sign… but how well do you really know it? In this episode, Laura and Becky dive into what your “star” (or Sun) sign actually represents - your core essence, your life force, and the light you’re here to shine....
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Episode 48: The Power of Boundaries: Protecting Energy, Deepening Connection
In this episode, we explore the art of boundaries: what they are, why they matter, and the psychology behind how we set (or struggle with) them. We’ll look at how yoga can help us tune into our body’s wisdom to create healthier boundaries...
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Episode 47: Personal Values & Why They Matter
In this episode, Laura & Becky open up about their personal journey with values — what they are, how they evolve, and the way they shape every choice we make. Together, they explore how discovering and living by their own values has impacte...
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Episode 46 : Summer Reflections with Becky and Laura
In this summer reflection episode, Laura and Becky look back on the past few months—sharing candid thoughts on relationships, parenting, kids and schooling. It’s a gentle pause to process the season gone by before we dive into fresh conversatio...
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Episode 45: Reclaiming Self-Worth from the Inside Out
Why do humans seek approval — the “biscuits” of praise, validation, and gold stars that never truly satisfy? In this episode, we explore the deep roots of self-worth: not as something earned, but remembered. We look at the childhood patterns, s...
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Episode 44: Being Over Doing - Reclaiming the Feminine in a World Obsessed with More
In a world that celebrates hustle and constant productivity, how do we return to simply being? This episode explores the subtle, often misunderstood difference between authentic feminine presence and anima possession — when the inner f...
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Episode 43 : Beneath the Surface: Shadow Work, Self-Worth & Retrograde Reflection
This episode dives into the raw, often unspoken terrain of shadow work, especially the parts of us that surface during retrograde season. The ones that whisper “you’re not doing enough”, or “you’re too much again.” The parts t...
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Episode 42 : Beyond the Poses: Yoga Teacher Training as a Journey To Being Enough As You Are
In this episode, we reflect on the powerful transformations that unfolded during our recent 200hr Yoga Teacher Training - not just for the students, but for us as guides and space holders too.We explore the Heroine’s Journey
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Episode 41 : Uranus in Gemini: Voice, Truth & the Age of AI
On 7/7/2025 — a numerological portal of awakening — Uranus, the planet of disruption and liberation, moves into Gemini for the first time in 84 years.This is more than a transit. It’s a revolution of voice, thought, and technology.
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Episode 40: Addiction as Disconnection: Healing with Yoga and the Stars
In this episode, we explore addiction—not just as a dependence on substances or behaviours, but as a symptom of deeper longing, disconnection, and unmet needs. Through the lenses of astrology and yoga, we unpack how certain planetary influences...
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