Your Body Has Been Holding What You Couldn't

In this episode, Juli Martin — The Love Lady — brings through the guides and the Monad on our magical, divine bodies, and on what it means to put the great power of the mind and soul in service to the body rather than at war with it. So many of us carry a fraught relationship with our physical selves, and yet the body is our instrument of experience — the way we perceive, feel, and take in every joy and every sorrow of being human. Juli shares the epiphany that reshaped her own relationship with her body: that the body is an unconditionally loving being, one that accepts us completely and even holds the emotions and traumas we cannot process in the mind or the soul, storing them, tolerating them, and quietly working to heal. She talks about letting the body lead rather than the mind, through somatic practice and the music-led movement method Ishtara, which she found through a remarkable teacher named Sylvia — and she is careful to note that she is not a practitioner herself. And she offers a gentle invitation for a world of screens and AI: to take little islands of embodiment through the day, to remember that no phone can hug you and no app holds the living human resonance we are starving for, and to come home — to the senses, to the body, and to the living earth we have belonged to all along. Learn more about Ishtara at ishtarabody.com.