The Illuminated Woman
Pleasure is every woman’s birthright. This is an invitation to light that spark within you and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been lost and forgotten. To light that spark the world told you to dim. The spark that aches to burn brightly. As women, we’ve lost that spark and with it, our connection to pleasure. In the Illuminated Woman podcast, we’ll explore how we’ve dimmed our light, how we’ve lost our feminine essence and connection to pleasure, and how we can reignite that spark so we can reclaim our Soul’s essence and destiny and find the freedom, magic, joy and pleasure our Soul craves. When we do, we’ll help heal ourselves, our lineage, and the world.
The Illuminated Woman
Soul Mapping, Moon Cycles, and Astro Reiki with Vanja Banks
I have a fabulous guest on today’s episode. I connected with Vanja Banks through my karmic astrology mentor and past guest on the podcast, Vika Bradford. As Vanja says, she’s a healer who brings the cosmos down to Earth. (Be sure to read to the bottom because Vanja is offering my listeners some very generous discounts on her products and services 💖)
I had a very unique astrology reading with Vanja that we talk about on the episode. It was so insightful that I knew I wanted to share her and her gifts with all of you. Vanja is a beautiful example of looking at what we loved In childhood or our early years and finding our purpose and passion so we can live them throughout our lives. In this episode we covered a variety of topics, including:
✨ Bridging physical and emotional healing
✨ Where she looked for connection and spirituality in her early life
✨ What led to her love of plants and astrology (you’ll love this combination and what she’s created from it!)
✨ How she connected with her inner child and did the healing work she didn’t know she needed
✨ How learning to live by the Moon helped her heal imbalances in her life
✨ What a progressed Moon is and how it affects us
✨ What our Moon sign represents and how we can use that information on our healing journey
✨ Using herbal tea as a self-care and healing tool - even in a bath!
✨ Where to look to create rituals to help you heal
✨ Using the four elements for healing (my workshop, Illuminate Your Healing Codes will show you which elements you’re designed to work with)
✨ Examples of rituals you can easily incorporate into your life to help you heal
✨ Using the phases of the Moon on your healing journey (there are apps you can use to track this so you don’t need to know how to look it up!)
✨ How Vanja creates Astro Reiki experiences specific to each client - this is fascinating and very unique!
✨ The insights I had in the Soul Map reading I had with Vanja
✨ Why we are not victims of life and life’s circumstances and how astrology can help empower us to make more informed choices
Vanja is a Trauma-Informed Spiritual Astrologer, Reiki (Level 2) Practitioner, 200hr Yoga Teacher, and Herbalist, operating on the belief that everything is energy.
She applies her learned experience & wisdom to restore energetic harmony and promote holistic healing by helping others cultivate a deep connection to their authentic Self.
Having grown up in war-torn Yugoslavia and immigrating to Canada at the age of 10, Vanja's path has been one of unlearning & healing trauma to find her way back to her authenticity, power, and passions.
As a generational cycle breaker, healer and teacher, she works intimately with clients & shares her wisdom through courses to help them reclaim lost parts of themselves, step into their power, and follow their own path, free of societal conditioning and familial patterns.
Connect with Vanja on her website or on Instagram
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