The Vital Goddess

What if what you're craving isn't another strategy?

Not more information.

Not another self-improvement project.

But a different atmosphere.

In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how a single doctor's appointment changed the course of my life and led me on a decades-long exploration of sacred sensuality, pleasure, feminine embodiment, and what eventually became the Vital Goddess Mastery space... aka the Venus Temple.

Together we explore:

🌹 Why atmosphere matters more than most of us realize

🌹 The hidden pressures many women live i...

Women have been taught to chase beauty through self-rejection.

But the feminine body blossoms through love, pleasure, and relationship.

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore how sacred sensuality can tame the inner critic and restore your natural radiance—not by fighting the mind, but by creating a different atmosphere within the body.

Together we explore:

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the invisible agreements we unconsciously make around beauty, worth, desire, pleasure, and love — and how those agreements begin shaping not only the nervous system and body… but the way we perceive ourselves and experience life itself.

These agreements often form early.

Through heartbreak.
Shame.
Comparison.
Criticism.
Objectification.
Performance.
Abandonment.

Or simply living in a culture that teaches women to disconnect from the wisdom of their bodies.

Over time, the body begins organizing around protection.

Th...

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the Sagittarius Full Moon as an invitation into deeper vision, truth, spaciousness, and embodied wisdom.

What if midlife is not the end of your relevance…
but the beginning of your Oracle Era?

As women move into their Second Spring, many begin to feel a longing for something deeper:
more meaning,
more authenticity,
more alignment with their sacred work and inner truth.

But reconnecting with vision is not necessarily about thinking harder or forcing clarity.

In many ways, it...

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore a radically different approach to feminine awakening…

one rooted not in performance, pressure, optimization, or “hacking” your femininity…
but in relationship.

Dianne shares her personal journey from approaching embodiment through striving and self-improvement…
to discovering that the feminine opens through rhythm, nourishment, sensuality, devotion, and deep relationship with the body.

Together we explore:

• Why you can’t hack the feminine
• Midlife as a sacred awakening into deeper embodiment
• Venus as a path of relationship, beauty, pleasure, and remembrance
•...

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the Taurus New Moon as an invitation into deeper embodiment, sensuality, beauty, nourishment, and feminine aliveness.

This deeply Venusian lunation arrives alongside a powerful question:

What if midlife is not the end of sensuality…
but the beginning of a more embodied relationship with it?

Inspired by the Taoist concept of Second Spring, this episode explores the possibility that the most alive, connected, radiant chapter of a woman’s life may not be behind her…
but emerging through a new relationship with her bo...

In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, I invite you into a gentle return to your body…

especially in this season of midlife, where many women begin to feel a  disconnection from sensation, desire, and their own inner rhythm.

Inspired by a recent Creatrix / Great Mother salon inside the Vital Goddess Temple, this episode explores how the body opens through safety, nourishment, and relationship.

You’ll also be guided through a simple, returnable practice I call The Navel Flower—a soft, embodied way to reconnect with your body through...

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body…
 if desire feels distant, or even confusing…
 you’re not alone—and nothing is wrong with you.

In this season of life, many women experience a shifting of desire…
 not because it’s gone,
 but because it’s asking to be met in a new way.

In this Scorpio Full Moon ritual, we explore how desire gently reawakens—
 through safety… nourishment… and a deeper relationship with your body.

This isn’t about pressure or performance.
 It’s about sustainable passion...

There comes a moment—often in midlife—
 when the body stops whispering… and begins to speak more clearly.

For many women, this can feel like something is going wrong.

Shifts in desire…
changes in the body…
sensations that feel unfamiliar, inconvenient… or even confronting.

And it’s so easy to fall into the narrative:
 “I need to fix this.”

But what if nothing is wrong?

What if these moments are not problems…
 but invitations?

In this episode, we explore a different orientation to healing—
 one th...

There are moments in life when something begins to stir…

 A sense that… there’s more.

More of you that wants to come out and play.
More joy… waiting to be lived.

This Aries New Moon, conjunct Chiron, opens a powerful doorway into that remembering.

Not a call to fix yourself...
or an invitation to endlessly revisit the past.

But an awakening…a remembering...a calling back to the part of you that was never lost.

In this episode, we explore the identity wound — not as...

There is a way of opening…

A way of softening…
 that begins not in the mind…
 but in the body.

In this episode, we explore The Anointed Heart—
a sensual, ancient pathway into presence through scent, breath, and felt experience.

Because scent doesn’t ask you to think…
 it invites you to feel.

And when paired with breath…
 something beautiful begins to happen.

The nervous system softens.
 The body remembers how to receive.
 And the heart… opens naturally, from within.

🌿 In this episode...

A Libra Full Moon transmission on beauty, safety, and tuning into the frequency of Radio Venus…

What if beauty isn’t something you achieve…
 but something you feel?

In this deeply nourishing Full Moon in Libra episode, I invite you into a new understanding of beauty—one that lives not in appearance or perfection, but in the body’s capacity to soften, receive, and feel safe.

We explore how many women have been living under a subtle but powerful cultural conditioning—which I  call “the spell of the patriarchy”—that pulls us out of our bodies an...

Midlife is often the moment when a woman stops living the life she was taught to perform…
 and begins walking the path her soul came here to embody.

If you’ve found yourself wondering:

What is happening to me?
 Why doesn’t my life fit the way it used to?
 Why do I feel both empty… and like I’m just getting started?

This one's  for you.

In this episode, I introduce what I call the Venusian Revolution — a return to the body, where truth lives, pleasure flows, and love leads.<...

The dream of this moment isn’t just asking to be imagined.

It’s asking to be embodied.

We are living through extraordinary times.

The tides are shifting. Old structures are loosening their grip. And many women are feeling a quiet but powerful call to reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies.

In this episode, we explore the magic of the Pisces New Moon and the powerful cosmic moment unfolding as we move toward the Aries Equinox and the meeting of Neptune and Saturn — the dreamer and the builder.

Pisces...

There is so much cultural conversation about pleasure.

How to create more of it.
How to perform it.
How to optimize it.

But very little about how to listen for it.

In this episode, we explore a quieter, more powerful truth:

Pleasure is not something you manufacture.
 It is something you allow.
 And something you gently cultivate through presence.

Dianne guides you into a new understanding of pleasure as sacred biology — not indulgence, not performance — but information.

We explore:

This Virgo Full Moon on March 3rd carries the potency of a lunar eclipse — a portal of refinement, revelation, and sacred release.

Eclipses can feel like a bit of a wild card.
But they don’t create change from nothing.
They illuminate what has already been loosening.

In this episode, we move beyond the surface story of Virgo as perfectionist and reconnect with her deeper archetype: the Priestess.

The keeper of sacred order.
 The guardian of discernment.
 The one who tends the inner flame.

This is not an inv...

We’re often taught that when conflict arises, we have two choices:

Collapse… or armor up.

Fawn or fight.
 Be porous or pick up the sword.

But what if there’s a third way?

In this episode, I share a recent boundary moment that activated an old pattern in my nervous system — and how instead of over-explaining or hardening, I brought my intensity into the temple of my practice.

We explore:

Happy Valentine’s Day, love.

February is often called the season of love —
 a time when so much attention is placed on romance, beauty, and desire.

And while those themes are certainly right up my alley…
 I tend to celebrate this season a little differently than what’s streaming through my inbox.

I see it as an invitation to turn that energy inward
 and remember a deeper truth:

Love is a state of being.

Not a story.

Not a performance.

Not so...

Let Your Body Lead

In a world that moves at relentless speed, many of us find ourselves living almost entirely in our heads—rushing, pushing, managing time, and overriding the quiet wisdom of the body.

In this episode, I invite you to slow down and explore sensual, non-linear movement as a gentle yet powerful pathway back into presence, healing, and inner rhythm.

We explore the difference between Kronos time—clock time, productivity, and pressure—and Kairos time, or soul time: the spacious, cyclical rhythm where the body naturally heals, digests, and integr...

Under this luminous Full Moon in Leo on February 1st, we’re invited to return to a deeper, truer experience of self-love — not as something we earn or perform, but as something we emanate.

This episode explores love as a living, embodied frequency rather than an act of self-sacrifice. With Venus traveling through Aquarius, a powerful reframe comes online:

My love is liberation.

Together, Leo and Aquarius remind us that joy is not the reward for giving — it is the source from which authentic love flows.

In t...

What if breathwork wasn’t something you did
but a journey you entered?

In this episode, Dianne invites you into the ancient, feminine art of sensual breathwork — a gentle yet powerful way to shift states, soften the nervous system, and come home to the body.

We explore conscious connected breathing (CCB), where the inhale flows seamlessly into the exhale like a wave, guiding you out of the thinking mind and into deeper, more intuitive states of awareness. Not through force or catharsis, but through presence, rhythm, and safety.

You’...

What if legacy wasn’t about striving…
 but about how you love?

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, I’m sharing a New Moon reflection inspired by the upcoming New Moon in Capricorn — a lunation that invites us to root into what we’re building long-term, not just in our work or goals, but in our bodies, our relationships, and the way we move through life.

You don’t need to follow astrology for this episode to land.
 I share how tuning into the rhythm of the New Moon and Full Moon became es...

This week on the pod I dive into a topic I’m super passionate about: The Taoist Jade Egg practice.

In this episode, I share the heart of my approach to working with the Jade Egg through breath, flow, subtle movement, deep listening & self love.

Rather than training the body to perform, this work is about restoring relationship with your inner landscape so safety, trust, sensation and vitality can return naturally. 

I introduce Jade Rebirth, my embodied approach to teaching the Taoist Jade Egg practice. 

We e...

Happy New Year! 🎉

 And Happy Full Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋

In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026.

Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm. 

With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and action into a more integrated w...

As we close out 2025 and stand at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, this episode offers a gentle, embodied way to meet the year ahead.

If you’ve chosen a word or mantra for 2026 but it hasn’t quite landed in your body yet, this one's for you.

In this final episode of the year, Dianne explores why pleasure is the missing link in manifestation and how intentions come alive when the body is included.

Inspired by the idea that affirmations are most powerful when we’re “in the vortex,” this episode translates manifestat...

In this episode, we slow down together for a deeply nourishing end-of-year ritual designed for women in midlife. As the Solstice approaches and the year begins to close, your body often wants softness, warmth and replenishment more than pressure or resolutions. 

This episode honors that need with a sensual Taoist practice called Kidney Breathing. It is one of the most restorative feminine practices for rebuilding vitality, sensuality, and emotional resilience.

We begin by acknowledging what this year has asked of you and inviting your nervous system into a state of rest. 

Then we mo...

In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful mysteries of the feminine body:

Your true voice doesn’t begin in your throat.
 It rises from your yoni, your womb, and your heart.
 And only then becomes sound.

If you’ve ever felt silenced, unsure, disconnected from your truth, or stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing… this episode will feel like a homecoming.

Together, we’ll explore:

🌹 The real origin of your voice: and why the throat is actually the final expression, not the starting point
 🌹 The yoni...

In this episode, we explore one of the deepest truths of midlife awakening:

Your body remembers.

💗 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

🌊 Guided Ritual Inside:

Sensual Breath: 
 A slow, wave-like breath sequence t...

Take a slow breath and settle into your body…
 because today’s episode opens a doorway into one of the most potent feminine truths of midlife:

You don’t have to push to be powerful.
You don’t have to perform to be magnetic.
You don’t have to harden to be respected. 

Here we’ll explore the awakening of Soft Power—the natural, sensual, sovereign magnetism that arises in midlife when you stop living for everyone else… and begin belonging to yourself again.

Soft Power is your birthright.
And in this episod...

I’m sure you’ve played with manifestation.

At least a bit.

Or at the very least your've entertained the idea that there might be something to it.

But I’m pretty sure you haven’t tasted the depth of what’s possible when you truly get real with your desires. 

Yet.

This is the realm of your Dark Feminine.

The Law of Attraction is real and it's the most powerful law in the Universe. 

I think Albert Einstein says it best:

"Everything is energy an...

Carla Shohet is on a mission to help cycle-breaking women heal from the past so they can truly thrive.

As a trauma psychologist, educator, a mom and a survivor of childhood narcissistic abuse Carla brings a soulful, heart-centered and passionate approach to the realm of trauma healing.

Carla is not your typical talk therapist. 

She's a holistic psychologist; a mind/body healing mentor with the warmth, and generosity of a woman who's truly got your back.

 She uses a variety of modalities to achieve root-cause resolution healing, not just short-term symptoms ma...

What is erotic innocence?

And how do you reclaim it for yourself?

It's quite clear that society has an Eros problem.

I don't have to tell you that.

The layers of dysfunction and abuse that abounds worldwide is beyond disturbing. 

It can easily leave us feeling overwhelmed and powerless.

What's the antidote?

Here's my take on it: One of the most radical, revolutionary and world changing things we can do as women is to consciously reclaim our erotic innocence.

Our Eros is our c...

You are a powerful Creatrix my love.

Part of you knows that.

And I bet part of you has forgotten.

One of the most beautiful things about awakening your feminine essence is that you begin to remember.

You begin to shed much of the conditioning that's been scripting your life.

And awaken an innate inner knowing of who you truly are and why you're really here.

You come home to yourself.

What you may not be aware of is how important pleasure is in the...

The creative, love force power you hold within you as a woman is immense.

It's the stuff that creates worlds.

The stuff that can ignite your life and change your world.

This essence within you is most likely for the most part, untapped.

Through no fault of your own.

That's the case for most women.

But you can change that.

This essence is your personal expression of Venus/Aphrodite; Goddess of Love.

Very few woman have discovered how to awaken this power and...

Getting right with desire is a master key in reclaiming your feminine power.

One of the golden keys to your Queendom.

And yet, for many valid reasons, most women have a very dysfunctional relationship with desire. 

Twenty years ago I did as well.

To be clear on what you want and to feel good about what you want can feel scary  and daunting, I get it.

We've had truckloads of conditioning on desire which can show up as massive resistance.

What I've come to know is that de...

I know most folks yearn for deep intimacy and lasting love in relationships.

And deep inside we have a hunch that's it's possible.

But how do we make that happen?

Modern love is a challenge to say the least.

The current state of intimacy in most long-term relationships is not what most couples dreamed it would be.

It's so easy to feel like you've lost the plot on love.

It's so easy to feel like you're the problem.

But what if that's simply not the...

Are you ready to move beyond the Kegel?

I was.

About 20 years ago I had some serious issues going on with my pelvis and pelvic floor. 

One of those issues was sciatica.

I'd have these bouts of crippling pain that would land me on my back for days.

At the time I was a Pilates teacher and Yoga teacher and the tools I was teaching gave me no relief. 

The Kegel wasn't working either.

What did help and eventually open up a whole new way of...

Tantra is a journey of expansion. 

The universe expanding through you.

Your cells want to dance with your every breath.

And yet there are many very valid reasons why that dance isn't always happening.

Stored trauma, tension, limiting beliefs & emotional content can keep our cells in lockdown, armored up, protective. 

Through intelligent use of breathwork we can gently & gracefully expand into being more fully alive and freely expressed.

Breathwork is powerful medicine and it needs to be done in ways that honor the nervous system.

I...

With all of the wellness options available to us today it's easy for a gal to get overwhelmed.

And being in a state of overwhelm doesn't support your wellbeing.

Here's a secret that most women are missing:

Pleasure is the ultimate wellness hack.

In this episode I go into why this is true and simple steps you can take today to dial up your pleasure and wellbeing.

Let's dive in!

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What is the Art of Pussification? 

Well, I think this quote from the woman who first introduced me to this brilliant practice says it beautifully:

“Pussification is an act of making your outer circumstance good for your inner circumstance or good for your pussy. Make it so it feels good to your pussy and your life is gonna shine.”

-Regena Thomashauer aka Mama Gena

I like to think of Pussification as Goddess Feng Shui.

The practice of creating harmony and beauty in my space so that it feels...