As someone with a soulful approach to life, but who never really thought of themselves as a religious person; and as someone who tends to shy away from belonging to anything (apart from this beautiful natural world), I have found myself the bearer of a new definition, that of being an ordained interfaith minister. I’m now officially a Reverend. And…

This week in the Soul Garden, I am reflecting on the tyranny of the And. What it is, what it does to us, and how we might be able to turn that around with some soul searching and the power of No. For solopreneurs, freelancers, consultants this may resonate. For women in midlife, thinking about how we can work with the menopause transition to gain c…

In this episode of The Soul Garden we explore natural perfumery and working with ancient cosmological concepts in the approach to creating aromatic portraits of ancient mystics and modern day perfume lovers. Georgina Langdale discusses her approach to working with aromatics. She talks about using raw ingredients, astrology, amulets, and Renaissance…

In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale reflects on a book by Thomas Moore, The Eloquence of Silence - surprising wisdom in tales of emptiness. Thomas Moore offers a compelling case for an easier, lighter way of moving through life by experiencing the peace. calm and openness of emptiness. Georgina touches on how emptiness can be a po…

The hormonal changes women experience as they go through menopause can lead to vaginal dryness, which is not a topic many people are keen to talk about. But over the past decade Georgina has been developing and making natural products to support women through menopause and other transitions, and has spoken to women and health professionals about th…

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When life changes and someone we love, or maybe its us, is given bad news, we need to dig deep to find ways through it all. In this episode I share with you how recent bad news within my own family prompted me to write a book to offers ways to help those I love navigate the times we find ourselves in. There are three things that I think are at the …

This week is all about the goddesses within and looking at goddess archetypes through the lens of a midlife woman. Getting to know these archetypes and working with them to help navigate life can be wonderfully empowering. In this episode we explore the archetypes of Hestia, Hera, Artemis, Demeter, Persephone and Aphrodite. If you are interested in…

It's that time of the year when we ask ourselves the big questions about who we really are, what are we doing, are we truly answering our calling. We set goals for the year ahead, dream about that career change, wonder what claiming one's true self after menopause could look like, we think about the art we could create, and the service to others we…

This is the last episode of The Soul Garden for 2023! And in this episode Georgina Langdale reflects on the power of landscape as part of one's own sense of being. She shares the wood in which she laid her father's ashes to rest, and conjures the green path she walks on inspired by nature and mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen, ending with a Celti…

In this week's episode we look at plant essences, also known as flower remedies. These are a form of vibrational medicine that is said to tap into the 'life force' of a plant. Georgina Langdale, presenter of The Soul Garden and founder of the Archeus Apothecary, has been working with this form of plant medicine throughout her life. This episode loo…

As Archeus celebrates 10 Years since it launched, founder and Soul Garden presenter, Georgina Langdale discusses how Archeus evolved from an artisanal apothecary into a centre for compassionate care. Reflecting on her parents' deaths, the power of Nature as a teacher, and how compassion can help deepen connection at every stage of the life journey …

In this week’s episode of The Soul Garden podcast, I reflect on my own connection with nature and ways I have worked with it over the past ten years of Archeus. For me, stepping away from my previous career, to step fully into this realm of working with nature, with plants to create offerings to support health and wellbeing at a physical, emotional…

This episode marks 10 years to the day since the launch of my business Archeus! In this episode I reflect on why I set Archeus up, some of my influences, a big thank you to those who have believed in my over this time. I reflect on the awards recognition over the years. I list ten things I have learned from ten years in business. And reflect on wha…

World Menopause Day has come round again and in this episode of the Soul Garden, host Georgina Langdale reflects with humour, wisdom and even joy at the things that can make this time of life so tricky and so wonderful. Who are the people who can help you navigate this time? What are the symptoms you may feel? What is the art you can create? What d…

What are the things we tell ourselves about ourselves? And how do those messages get in the way of our true potential? In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale takes a look at Self Talk and how we can work with it as a force for good. She draws her inspiration from the 12th Century mystic, healer and abbess Hildegard of Bingen who wrot…

This episode is slightly different to my normal approach to this podcast. It is part creative mash-up, part lament, part call to action. Earlier this year the area I live in was hit by tropical cyclone Gabrielle, and even in the few months since then it seems as if the whole world is burning or flooding. I started getting this riff going around in …

Who's afraid of flying? Me! I used to love it, but now I am just seriously afraid. I have gone from intrepid explorer, to trembling coward. And I don't think I'm alone in this fear. So in this episode of the Soul Garden, I look that fear in the face and talk about how I have used the power of ceremony to overcome it, or at least bring down to somet…

In this episode of the Soul Garden, host Georgina Langdale reflects on Earth Day. She also is prompted by its proximity to ANZAC Day to name some of the fallen, species that have gone extinct since WWI due to human impacts, in a from of prayer and meditation called Lectio divina. Courses | Coaching georginalangdale.com Instagram @georginalangdaleso…

This week I share with you some background on why I set up my business Archeus (ten years ago!), some of my thoughts on how I work with Nature to help and support women in midlife and all the changes and transitions it brings from menopause, to changing relationships, caring for ageing parents, and all the grief and joy, living and dying of life. I…

How do we find balance and resilience in a changing world? How do life changes and transitions, both internal and external act as catalysts for a deeper way of being? It's been a few weeks now since the cyclone Gabrielle devastated the region I live in. This has been a life-changing experience and this episode of The Soul Garden explores how to nav…

In this week's episode I'm sharing a healing meditation and visualisation I recorded today for a friend who is going through cancer treatment. I wanted to create something that she might find gives her comfort during her treatment, that may help her activate the healing her body wishes for at this time. After I sent it to her I thought of how it mi…

In this powerful episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale explores the idea of perimenopause as a liminal space that invites us to draw in the potential of our post-menopausal wisdom years. She offers up another view of perimenopause that reframes symptoms as markers of transformation. She sees perimenopause as a gestation and birthing of a ne…

It's World Menopause Day and following an interview I had with the fabulous Tracy Minnoch-Nuku and her Sexy Ageing Podcast I felt a little nudge from some of the things we had talked about in her interview. I had touched on sensitive topics. I was being candid, but not forthright and this troubled me. And so it came to pass that I found myself writ…

Why is it that we find out so much about those when love only when we are at their funeral? Sometimes inspiration for a podcast episode sneaks right up on you and compels you to sit down in front of the microphone and speak from the heart. This is one of those episodes. Short. Sweet and hopefully helpful. In it I explore things left unexplored and …

Sometimes we just feel the need to take a deep breath and pray for peace. This meditation is one I have created to extend that peace to this planet, to our Mother Earth. It is an invitation to come together in a message of healing for this planet, for ourselves. I've been so troubled by the language that is increasingly being used to describe Natur…

When we can explore consciousness we can find ways to see death as a natural part of the life cycle. Life experiences shape us, but they can also give us the ability to make more sense of the world around us. For me a Near Death Experience opened the door to insights into infinity and the paradox of connection. None of us want to lose the people an…

In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale takes a look at how the wisdom of the Florentine philosopher, physician and priest, Marsilio Ficino, can help us to create a soul-aligned life. When I look at soul, I really think of this heart space for me, soul is where we truly reside within ourselves with no ego, with no fears and sense of c…

In this episode of the Soul Garden presenter Georgina Langdale takes a look at the 15th Century physician, philosopher and priest, Marsilio Ficino. Ficino has been a key influence in Georgina's work as a herbalist, healer, end of life carer and energy worker. She shares some of the things she loves about him and how he has inspired her 'Planets Wit…

How many of us have been struggling lately? The news is unrelentingly grim. Everything has become calamitous. It is hard not to feel fearful. Grief is never far from the surface. I have found myself asking, how do we navigate a path through this? If you have followed my writing, podcast, videos and teaching for a while now, you’ll know that my firs…

In addition to the teaching and coaching that helps people deepen their connection to nature, develop compassionate communication skills to help in life, and at the end of life, and help the changemakers committed to building a sustainable future, I also have part of my business dedicated to helping and supporting women as they go through the menop…

When your guest says, “The deep ancient side of me responds to the deep ancient side of that site, that place in nature” you know you are in for a fascinating discussion. In this week’s episode of The Soul Garden I’m talking to Harriet Sams, archeologist, archaeotherapist, intuitive guide and ecotherapist. I love our discussion! We talk about the b…

I think that we can all relate to feeling stuck at times. We ask ourselves questions like, “what is my potential?” and “How do I figure that out?”. A couple of days ago, I found myself literally sobbing at my computer going, ‘who am I? What am I doing? I had got really, really stuck. So in this podcast I take a look a getting stuck, and getting uns…

Jackie Butler is a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral therapist based in Richmond in the Tasman district of New Zealand. I first met Jackie when she enrolled as a student in the Natural Carer end of life care programme I run at the Centre for Nature Connection. Jackie's approach to end of life care incorporates her skill as a 'cranio' therapist and we explo…

Do you find yourself sometimes wishing that you could connect into something bigger, into nature to help you feel grounded or to help you through the tough stuff? In this episode of the Soul Garden we are going to look at plant essences, which are beautiful, beautiful bridge builders between us and the natural world. I hope you enjoy this episode w…

Setting up your own business can be incredibly exciting, rewarding and stimulating – but it can also be hard! I learned two things (possibly the hard way!) in pursuing my dream of creating Archeus and the Centre for Nature Connection. One was: you are going to learn more about courage than you ever realized you needed to know; and the other thing i…

This week’s guest is Joanna Huriwai. Joanna is many things including: mother, friend, nurse, sister, midwife, rabble rouser and druid. In this episode Joanna and I explore things that bring meaning and comfort to our lives, especially in the face of a life-limiting illness. I first met Joanna and her family when I was asked to spend time with them …

How can we help our much loved pets as their end draws near? The bond between our animals can be so, so strong and so when the time comes that they are dying we want to be able to do all we can to support them through their last days, hours or moments of life. Caring for our beloved pets at the end of their life is as important, as necessary, as he…

In this episode of the The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale is joined by Dr. Tess Moeke-Maxwell to discuss work being done to support Māori whānau (families) to provide care to adults and kaumātua (older people) at end of life. In our discussion Tess talks about identity, dislocation from traditional customs and how we have to prepare our whanau and …

‘Conscious dying’ is a term that is starting to weave its way into the zeitgeist but what does it actually mean? Like hospice staff and palliative care providers, increasingly I’m also being asked that question. In this podcast we take a look at what conscious dying means and how the emergence of conscious dying as a term in the end-of-life care sp…

Being at the bedside as someone we love is dying is painful, and heartbreaking, and profound. So to be honest, when it gets to this moment, we need all the help we can get, yet so many people are so afraid to talk about this stuff. Here are some lessons I've learned about being at the bedside with people who are dying. If you would like to find out…

In this episode of the Soul Garden I am joined by Thomas Moore, bestselling author, psychotherapist, former monk, and musician. Known for his international bestseller Care of the Soul, I first discovered the magic that is Thomas through his book The Planets Within, about the 15th century philosopher and ‘physician of the Soul’, Marsilio Ficino. In …

In this episode of the Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale is joined by third generation funeral director, Terry Longley in a warm, thoughtful and informative discussion on what happens after someone dies. Statistics say that most people will only have direct experience of having to manage the funeral of 2.3 people in a lifetime. That doesn't give us mu…

My name is Georgina Langdale and increasingly my work centres around providing care, support and training for end-of-life care. As we care for people, how deeply are we observing them? Digging beneath the diagnosis to observe the nature of the person and the patterns that presents? My father taught me tough lessons on this in the place where dement…

Rob McGowan, or Pa Ropata as he is also known, is one of this country’s national living treasures. He has loved plants ever since he was old enough to grab one in his tiny fist. His fascination grew when he was given responsibility for looking after the fernery at the Greenmeadows seminary in Hawke’s Bay while training to be a Marist priest, and la…

There is so much unrest and turmoil in the world right now, yet the natural world is also providing ways for us to make a positive change, to step up and be the change we wish to see in this world. This episode takes a look at the solar eclipse that is taking place this Sunday; we look at what makes it so special, and how it gives us the opportunit…

In this episode, Georgina Langdale looks at working with plant energy and the medicine wheel to help journey through grief. Working with the vibrational medicine of plant essences made in her organic gardens, Georgina crafts directional plant elixirs to help with strength, courage, release and memory. Find out how she works with them and the four d…

How do we navigate the death of a loved one and the grief after they are gone? How do we navigate the death of normal in the face of Covid-19? Four Winds Light Body School teacher, Karen Johnson, joins me for a poignant and powerful discussion about how we both came to terms with loss and grief, and then stepped out on a path to help others on this…