Wild Heart Podcast

• Wildness & Devotion with Adriana Rizzolo

  Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.In this episode, expressive artist Adriana Rizzolo shares about the wisdom of the body, ancestral and spiritual Tantric lineage, grieving the father, intimacy, relationships and embracing mistakes. Adriana Rizzolo is the founder of Body Temple Church and the creator of Body Temple Dance, a trance space that welcomes grief and rage to be transmuted into aliveness through ritual, expressive arts including prayer-formance and intuitive movement. She is a 13 year sober trauma informed, Tantra aligned, spiritual mentor, mystic, somatic healer, adult sex educator, and guide to the unseen realms.Learn more at www.bodytemple.church and follow her on Instagram at @artofloving As Father’s Day season is upon us and we are holding you in our hearts if this is a tender time for you. We are currently preparing for the Temple of Shakti Retreat with Adriana Rizzolo, Willow Brook and Tammy Chow this Father’s Day weekend as an opportunity to heal our relationships with the masculine and embrace the father within. If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to join an upcoming event with our community:Join award-winning author Mirabai Starr in the luminous high desert of Taos, New Mexico, where the veils between the sacred and the everyday grow thin.Through poetry, presence, and the written word, we'll gather in circle to reclaim writing as a spiritual practice—and your life as holy ground.Adriana will guide us in Body Temple dance to unleash your creativity and authentic voice.Ordinary Mysticism Writing RetreatOct 16-20, 2025You are invited to explore the electrifying wisdom of women mystics and goddesses across the spiritual spectrum who carry special medicine for our times.  Highlighting themes of longing for the divine and justice-making, we will support you in forging intimate relationships with these wisdom beings as living allies on your own journey. This is an invitation for people of all genders who yearn for a more wildly creative, tenderly inclusive space for transformation.Wild Mercy Virtual RetreatJune 27-29th, 2025Early bird rates before June 17th!Connect with Adriana: www.bodytemple.churchIG: ⁠@artofloving Connect with Wild Heart: ⁠wildheart.space⁠IG: ⁠@wildheartspace⁠Connect with Willow: ⁠soulinvocation.com⁠IG ⁠@willow__brook⁠Connect with Mirabai: ⁠mirabaistarr.com⁠IG: ⁠@mirabaistarr⁠Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart [email protected]

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• Secrets of Divine Love with A. Helwa

  Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.In this episode, luminous author A. Helwa shares about divine love in daily life, her experience of learning from other traditions, expanding love for the divine and the mystical practice of trust and surrender. Her best-selling book Secrets of Divine Love illuminates wisdom from the heart of Islam.A. Helwa believes that every single person on Earth is deeply loved by the Divine. She is a writer who has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers through her passionate, poetic, and love-based approach to spirituality. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily, was established while obtaining her Masters in Divinity, as a means of helping others overcome personal and spiritual struggles on their journey of experiencing divine love. With over 15 years of experience writing and speaking on Islam and spiritual development, A. Helwa draws from her personal experiences and traditional sources to help her readers access ‘Divine love in everyday life.’When Helwa is not reading at coffee shops, she can be found climbing mountains, camping in deserts, hiking jungles, or reading about black holesLearn more at  www.secretsofdivinelove.com and follow her on Instagram at @a.helwa_ If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to join an upcoming event with our community:Join spiritual teacher Mirabai Starr and activist Valarie Kaur to explore how we process grief and summon Revolutionary Love in the wake of authoritarianism. Together, they reflect on personal loss, collective mourning, and the power of love as a force for justice, healing, and transformation.Grief & Revolutionary Love in response to AuthoritarianismJune 4th, 2025Join Mirabai Starr in embracing longing as holy ground, fusing our personal desires with our wish for liberation and a collective dedication to gathering the world's suffering into our arms and transforming it in a free event called Fire of Desire.Fire of Desire June 8th, 2025Connect with A. Helwa:  www.secretsofdivinelove.com⁠IG: ⁠@a.helwa_Connect with Wild Heart: ⁠wildheart.space⁠IG: ⁠@wildheartspace⁠Connect with Willow: ⁠soulinvocation.com⁠IG ⁠@willow__brook⁠Connect with Mirabai: ⁠mirabaistarr.com⁠IG: ⁠@mirabaistarr⁠Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart [email protected]

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• Ordinary Mysticism with Mirabai Starr

  Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.In this episode, Wild Heart co-founder Mirabai Starr shares about her latest book ⁠Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground⁠ and explores the mysticism of sensuality, relationships, grief and loss and how to unveil the sacred in the mess of our lives. Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss. She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism, has been praised by Anne Lamott as “a gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life”. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico. If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to join an upcoming event with our commmunity:Join Willow Brook and Manny Fassihi for Connected, an exploration of communication as a spiritual practice. Weaving together ancient wisdom and practical tools for bringing sacred presence into our daily relationships, we will embrace communication and conflict as fruitful opportunities for personal transformation and deepened connection. ⁠Connected: Communication as Spiritual Practice⁠March 28-30, 2025Join Mirabai Starr in deconstructing unhelpful beliefs around grief and reclaim your authentic experience in community. We have all experienced loss, and whether someone you love died, you are going through a breakup, health diagnosis, or any other life-shattering change, your loss counts. In a world filled with heartbreaking violence and injustice, our personal and collective grief can become pathways to deeper connection rather than sources of competition or comparison.⁠Unraveling the Myths of Grief ⁠FREE event April 15-18, 2025 Offered a few times a yearConnect with Mirabai: ⁠mirabaistarr.com⁠IG: ⁠@mirabaistarr⁠Connect with Wild Heart: ⁠wildheart.space⁠IG: ⁠@wildheartspace⁠Connect with Willow: ⁠soulinvocation.com⁠IG ⁠@willow__brook⁠Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart [email protected]

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