Episode Description
Today, I'm joined by Kim and we explore the meeting point between breathwork and magick, and how simple, rhythmic practices can quietly transform the way we move through an increasingly noisy world.
This is a conversation about pausing, trusting embodied knowing, questioning inherited structures, and rediscovering magick as something we remember how to live.
In this episode, we explore:
1. When breathwork meets magick
Kim shares how learning breathwork as a professional modality has blurred the boundaries between her pagan identity and her working life. What emerges is a recognition that breath, meditation, ritual, and spellwork all share the same root: intentional attention.
2. The sacred pause as a site of transformation
Breath is framed as a liminal practice. Inhale, pause, exhale. We discuss the parallel between breathing and walking a labyrinth, where the pause at the centre becomes the place where integration and change occur.
This pause, mirrored in seasons, lunar cycles, and ritual, is named as the place where magick quietly works.
3. Rhythm over stillness
We talk about the reality that stillness isn't always a safe space or even accessible for everyone. Breathwork, meditation, and ritual can be deeply powerful, but also confronting or overwhelming for those with trauma or sensory sensitivity.
Walking, knitting, colouring, stitching, and repetitive handwork are offered as equally valid magickal practices. Rhythm, rather than silence, becomes the doorway.
4. Magick as relationship, not performance
We reflect on how our magick has changed over time. Early practices often focused on structure, tools, and ritual. With experience, those patterns become embodied, held internally rather than performed externally.
Magick is compared to cooking: first learned through recipes and rules, later practised through intuition, memory, and trust.
5. Questioning dogma, even in magickal spaces
Discernment runs through this episode. From directions and elemental associations to teachers, lineages, and Instagram wisdom, We explore the importance of questioning where teachings come from and whether they truly align with our values.
We explore how easy it is to step out of religious dogma only to find yourself inside a shinier version of the same structure.
6. Land, lineage, and lived experience
I share stories of growing up in Cornwall, where tides, mist, weather, and seasonal flux shaped my understanding of the elements long before formal training. Witches, artists, herbs, and myth were woven into everyday life, not separated from it.
Could Gods, goddesses, and archetypes be reframed as emergent from the landscape rather than imposed upon it?
7. Community, ritual, and the loss of shared touchstones
The conversation turns to the decline of communal ritual spaces and the tension between online and in-person gatherings. While digital spaces offer accessibility and safety, something essential is still held in physical presence, shared breath, and human touch.
Both honour the value of each, without idealising either.
8. Making as magick
Knitting circles, tea-leaf reading, knot-tying, stitching, and making with the hands emerge as deeply magickal practices. Not because of what they produce, but because of the states they invite: focus, rhythm, connection, and story.
Art, craft, and creation are named as spellwork in their own right.
Join us for a conversation that offers permission to pause without stopping, to practise magick without labels, and to trust that presence itself is transformative.
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