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
77 episodes
Episode 77: Do You Beat Yourself Up With Gratitude?
Have you ever caught yourself trying to force gratitude…Telling yourself you should feel grateful, that you shouldn’t want more, that other people have it worse…And somehow ending up feeling worse, not be...
Episode 76: Why We Wear Masks | Healing, Spiritual Ego & Authenticity
In this episode we explore the psychology and spirituality of masking. From people pleasing and identity performance to spiritual ego and autism masking.Why do we hide parts of ourselves?At what point does protection become per...
Episode 75: Self-Worth, Body Image & Shame: Why Women Struggle to Like Themselves
Do you actually like yourself… or have you just been taught to constantly fix yourself?In this episode, we explore self-worth, body image, and the deeper layers of self-acceptance that go far beyond surface-level self-love.Because...
Episode 74: What Happens When You Don’t Feel Your Feelings
We’re told to “feel our feelings”… but no one ever really shows us how.So instead, we think about them. Analyse them. Justify them. Or push them away entirely.In this episode, we explore what it actually means to feel — not in the...
Episode 73: Why do we rush and what does it cost us?
Episode 72: Why do we rush and what does it cost us?Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done. So why do we?In this episode, Becky and Laura explore the deeper drivers behind our constant sense of urgency. From patterns of sel...
Episode 72 : Easter - The Hidden Feminine Fragments
Easter is rarely questioned.It’s presented as a fixed story, something that happened once, something to either believe in or dismiss, but when you begin to look at how it is timed, how it sits within the cycles of the sun and the moon, a...
Episode 71: What is Joy Really & Where Does It Live In Your Birthchart
What if joy isn’t something you have to chase… but something already mapped within you?In this episode, we explore a deeper, more personalised understanding of joy through the lens of our personal experiences and of astrology. Moving bey...
Episode 70: Why the Real New Year Starts in Aries
Every year we’re told the new year begins on 1st January.But in astrology, the real beginning happens somewhere else entirely.When the Sun enters Aries, it marks the astrological new year. A moment aligned with the Spring Equinox,...
Episode 69: How to Trust Yourself — What if there is no wrong decision?
Many of us spend so much time analysing, asking for advice, or waiting for certainty that we disconnect from the one place that actually holds the answer — ourselves.In this episode we explore how to rebuild trust in your own inner guida...
Episode 68: What Your Friendships Are Showing You
Friendship is one of the most important, and often most confusing relationships in our lives.Some friends stay for decades.Some disappear after a season.Some arrive like lightning bolts, changing the course of our lives before mo...
Episode 67: Conscious Parenting - From Control to Connection
Parenting is often spoken about as raising a child — but in truth, it is equally the process of raising yourself.Your children don’t just need feeding, protecting, and guiding. They activate parts of you that were hidden, unhealed, or as...
Episode 66: Why We React the Way We Do
In this episode, Laura explores triggers and transference — why do we get triggered and what can we do about it? Not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life, relationships, parenting, and work. Using yoga philosophy, psychology, and lived ex...
Episode 65: When It’s Time to Let Go
In this episode, Laura shares a very personal and pragmatic reflection on the decision to close Soul Sanctuary after 12 years. A studio closing email can only say so much, here Laura speaks openly about the reality of running a heart-led busine...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...