The Whole Paradox
Welcome to The Whole Paradox podcast, where we explore timeless wisdom in the modern age to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and belonging to ourselves, our world, and one another. We will integrate the sacred, mythic, somatic, creative and poetic to expand our meaning of truth and our capacity for complexity and nuance.
The Whole Paradox
The Continual Decimation of Being with Maya Night
The elder mother gathers the liminal one out of bed. She dresses in earthen skins, her belly round and ripening. She is led blindfolded down a well trodden path into the forest and on into a clearing. A circle of mothers around a fire at the center, tended by maidens in flowing white dress...
The ceremony ends as the liminal one is offered gifts and talismans to remember her strength and power as she faces the decimation of the one who came before and is welcomed to the ancient line of the Mother.
In this episode Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews somatic liberator, entrepreneur, leader, and revolutionary, Maya Night. They discuss:
- The feminine in business-relinquishing the “niche” philosophy
- Distinction between maiden and mother mentality
- The decimation of birth, mothering, and parenting
- Motherhood and the erotic
- Being with the cycles of life and inner death
- Trusting the seasons of business
- Maidenhood and righteousness and safety to widening scope in motherhood
- Not turning away from discomfort
- The hardest thing about mothering
- Valuing aliveness over happiness
- The power of honesty and transparency
- Maya’s work around relational alchemy
- Bringing forward the taboo and unspeakable into relationship
- Somatic relationship practices
Find Maya Night:
Follow Maya @maya_._night.
Find out more about her work on her website.
Follow us @mollymitchellhardt
This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.
References:
This Jungian Life Podcast
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself by Lisa Marchiano
Margaret Wheatley