Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.

In this episode, Wild Heart co-founder Mirabai Starr shares about her latest book ⁠Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground⁠ and explores the mysticism of sensuality, relationships, grief and loss and how to unveil the sacred in the mess of our lives.

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss. She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism, has been praised by Anne Lamott as “a gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life”. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to join an upcoming event with our commmunity:

Join Willow Brook and Manny Fassihi for Connected, an exploration of communication as a spiritual practice. Weaving together ancient wisdom and practical tools for bringing sacred presence into our daily relationships, we will embrace communication and conflict as fruitful opportunities for personal transformation and deepened connection.

⁠Connected: Communication as Spiritual Practice⁠

March 28-30, 2025

Join Mirabai Starr in deconstructing unhelpful beliefs around grief and reclaim your authentic experience in community. We have all experienced loss, and whether someone you love died, you are going through a breakup, health diagnosis, or any other life-shattering change, your loss counts. In a world filled with heartbreaking violence and injustice, our personal and collective grief can become pathways to deeper connection rather than sources of competition or comparison.

⁠Unraveling the Myths of Grief ⁠

FREE event April 15-18, 2025

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IG: ⁠@mirabaistarr⁠

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Ordinary Mysticism with Mirabai Starr