Episode 55: Sensitivity, Sacred Space and Meaningful Rituals with Chloe Isidora

Chloe Isidora, author of Sacred Self-care: Everyday rituals for a more joyful and meaningful life. After 10 years working as a fashion editor, Chloe followed her heart into the world of healing, mysticism and magic. She trained in Shamanic practices at The Four Winds Society, Crystalline Consciousness and Divine Feminine empowerment.

Chloe offers Sacred Womb Healing that is centred around transformation, empowerment and self-love. She offers sacred self-care and self-love practices can be easily integrated into daily life, bringing a deeper awareness of one’s inner wisdom and intuition, living from a place of truth and nourishing a sense of connection.

In this episode, we talked about:

Finding stillness within
“The beauty of sacred space is that you don’t need anything, it’s already inside you”
Bringing beauty in the sacred space
“What’s our intention behind things?”
Clearing a physical space also helps to clear the clutter in the mind
Connecting with divine presence, but not the more traditional or dogmatic aspects of worship
Connecting with the unseen world by “learning your instrument”- do you feel, see or hear most strongly? Each sense can be more developed
Take the time to be soft and receptive
Look at the symbolism of what is around you
Using your senses to pick up information about your surroundings e.g. when you walk into a room
“Our bodies are constantly feeding us information”
Call on your angels, guides and ancestors
Gathering all the information, whether mental or physical and then making an informed choice
Being tender with yourself
You can’t hold space for another person if you haven’t owned the heavier, more challenging emotions
Allowing feels to work through the body
Movement as a way of release
Connecting with the earth and coming back to centre
Chloe studied with shamanic healing with the ‘Four Winds’’, founded by Alberto Villoldo
The resurgence of women’s circles and gathering together
The healing that happens when we are heard and seen
Moving from ‘I’ and ‘me’ to ‘we’ and ‘us’
The feminine is receptive and creative
Setting intentions and choosing your frequency
Trust
Marking rights of passage such as the first bleed, ‘mama-to-be’,
Remembering that you are sacred
Creating your own ceremonies and rituals
“Everything is intention”
Turning everyday actions into rituals
Water rituals- connecting to the water when showering, releasing anything that is ready to be shed, receiving
Ritual tea as a moment of stillness
A full moon or new moon to mark a ceremony
Connecting with the elements, eg a feather for air, crystal for earth, candle for fire, and water
Holding ritual for the summer solstice
Ceremonies as a rite of passage for men. Space for men to be vulnerable
Balancing the feminine and masculine within us
The womb as a sacred space, where we can connect to the womb of earth and the cosmic womb, and therefore with all creation
One of Chloe’s teachers is Marcela Lobos, wife of Alberto Villoldo
The Rite of the Womb: “the womb is not the place to hold fear or pain, it’s the place to create and give birth to new life”
The womb as the seat of our power
The womb is receptive, and therefore holds past trauma, including sexual trauma or baby-loss
Being sovereign in our womb space, so it’s only our energy that’s held there