About Of The Wild & Sacred - Power, pleasure & presence for women in midlife
Of the Wild and Sacred is a podcast for women 40+ moving through the messy middle of midlife—where hormones are shifting, identities are unraveling, and something deeper is calling.
Hosted by Sonia Auld, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Tantra-informed embodiment mentor, and sacred rhythm teacher, this podcast explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual transitions that happen when you're no longer who you were… but not yet sure who you’re becoming.
Through Ayurveda, Tantra, sacred rituals, Kundalini-inspired practices, and intuitive feminine wisdom, each episode offers grounded insights and gentle guidance to help you:
Reclaim your energy, rhythm, and nervous system
Feel safe and sensual in your changing body
Honor your truth without needing to rush your process
Create a life that reflects the woman you’re becoming
Not about fixing yourself. This is where we move from healing to wholeness.—where you learn to live from the inside out.
Welcome to Of the Wild and Sacred—where the midlife unraveling becomes the path to wise womanhood.
S2 #19: The Union I Kept Looking for Was Already Inside Me
Season 2 begins — and this one's different. It's called The Return to Yourself, and it's less a framework taught from the outside, more an experiment in bringing you along in real time. Inside this episode: the divine masculine and divine feminine as characteristics every woman carries, not a gender divide. The Ayurvedic concept of ojas, and why perimenopause is asking for a different kind of steadiness than the one that used to come automatically. A live embodiment practice to locate exactly...
19 Aug 2026
18: The Automatic Yes (And the Pause That Breaks It)
Do you answer everything the second it lands? Text back instantly, say yes before you've felt anything, fill every open hour because empty ones feel like an accusation? This episode is about the pause that breaks that pattern — one breath, held at the top, where your body actually gets a vote before your mind decides for you. It picks up the woman from Episode 7. If you've been listening a while, you'll want to hear what happened to her. _________________________________________________...
12 Aug 2026
17: The Guilt You're Calling Kindness
You made the hard decision. So why can't you stop softening it? This episode is about the guilt that shows up after you've already trusted yourself — and the Ayurvedic reason it's quietly draining you dry. Support the show If today’s episode spoke to you, there’s more waiting for you in my world: ✨ You can start here for group lifestyle rituals, guidance and support: The Holistic Embodiment Membership www.ayurvedichormonehealing.com 🪷 Work With Me 1:1 for Ayurvedic and embodiment coach...
6 Aug 2026
16: The Ozempic Divorce Nobody's Explaining Right
This episode goes somewhere else entirely — into what Ayurveda has known for thousands of years about fat and oil. Not things to eliminate. The actual symbols of love, safety, and connection. The quality is called snigdha. Its opposite, ruksha, is what a relationship feels like — with a partner, or with your own body — when it goes dry. This isn't only a weight loss thing. Any fast change can trigger it. A diagnosis. A move. A new decade. The old container disappears before a new one's ready,...
29 Jul 2026
15: I'm Working Out and Still Gaining Weight
You're showing up. You're being consistent. And your body is still changing in ways that don't make sense to you. If you've ever caught yourself wondering why the effort isn't producing the results it used to — this episode is for you. In this episode we talk about what's actually happening in your body during perimenopause that changes the way you respond to exercise. Not because you're doing it wrong — but because the rules genuinely shifted, and nobody told you. Whether you've been moving ...
22 Jul 2026
14: What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
You've tried a lot of things. You've done the research, found the protocols, had the phase where something finally clicked — and then watched it stop working again. If you've ever caught yourself wondering if the problem is you, this episode is for you. We talk about the one layer nobody pointed her to — the thing that was running underneath every diet, every supplement, every attempt — and what happened when she finally understood it existed. Support the show If today’s episode spoke ...
15 Jul 2026
13: Who Am I If I'm Not Who I Used To Be?
In this episode, Sonia names the stage most women in midlife are either standing in or terrified of — the Great Reassessment and the messy middle that follows it — and maps out what actually happens when the ground disappears. She traces the root of this free-fall back to her own six-year journey of rebalancing decades of go-go-go masculine achievement with a slower, quieter reclamation of her divine feminine: receiving, flowing, creating, allowing. Drawing on Ayurveda, Tantra's Shiva-Shakti ...
8 Jul 2026
12: The Boundary You've Been Avoiding
She said yes before she even decided to- that's a nervous system that learned agreeable was safer than honest. This week: what's actually underneath your "no" when it feels this dangerous to say, why your body starts bracing before your brain catches up, and the small, physical practice that helps you find your edges again — even after you've already said the wrong thing out loud. Support the show If today’s episode spoke to you, there’s more waiting for you in my world: ✨ You can start here...
1 Jul 2026
11: The Invisible Emotional Labor
In this episode, we're diving deep into the codependency that nobody talks about: the invisible emotional labor you've volunteered for because you thought it made you strong. We're talking about being in your head instead of your body, controlling conversations, preventing discomfort, and what it actually costs you—and the people you love—when you do. Here's what we cover: What emotional labor actually is (and how it's different than what you think)Why you're running a Kapha excess pattern an...
24 Jun 2026
10: I'm only worthy when I'm producing
In this episode, we're talking about the belief that's been quietly running your life: that your worth is tied to what you produce. And then midlife arrives—and suddenly your body won't support that belief anymore. This isn't about burnout or the inability to rest (we covered that in Episode 8). This is about something deeper: the collision between Pitta values (drive, achievement, fire) and Vata terrain (the hormonal and life-stage shift into your second half of life). Your hormones are chan...
17 Jun 2026
9: Pleasure is medicine
When you're constantly in survival mode, your body cannot access pleasure. Your nervous system has forgotten what safety feels like. So sensation shuts down. In this episode, we're talking about the cost of overfunctioning that goes deeper than time or rest. We're talking about pleasure itself. Aliveness. The felt sense of being in your own body. I share: Why the body deprioritizes pleasure (Ayurvedic wisdom on the dhatus)What ojas actually is and why you feel burnt out without itThe moment I...
10 Jun 2026
8: Why You Can't Rest (Even When You Desperately Want To)
You want to rest. But the moment you stop moving, anxiety creeps in. Guilt. That voice that says you should be doing something. Sound familiar? In this episode, we're diving deep into what's really happening when you can't rest—and why it has nothing to do with willpower or laziness. Because rest isn't a luxury. Rest is medicine. And your nervous system needs to learn that stopping is safe. This episode gives permission. Listen in. Support the show If today’s episode spoke to you, there’s mo...
3 Jun 2026
7: The nervous system of over functioning woman
This conversation goes beyond burnout and stress and into the deeper cost of constantly living in survival mode — always productive, always carrying emotional labor, always anticipating, always “on.” Sonia explores how over-functioning disconnects women from rhythm, pleasure, embodiment, and life force through the lens of Ayurveda, feminine embodiment, Tantra, and nervous system wisdom. If you’ve been feeling emotionally flat, overstimulated, disconnected from pleasure, unable to fully rest, ...
27 May 2026
6: The Exhaustion of Always Holding It Together
In this episode of Of the Wild and Sacred, Sonia explores the hidden exhaustion many women are quietly carrying — the pressure to always be productive, emotionally available, strong, agreeable, and constantly holding everything together. Through the lens of Ayurveda, feminine embodiment, Tantra, and nervous system wisdom, this conversation explores hyper-functioning, self-abandonment, emotional overwhelm, receiving, sensuality, and the body’s growing intolerance for lives built around constan...
20 May 2026
5: When your old life no longer fits
There comes a season in many women’s lives where the identities, roles, and structures that once felt stable suddenly no longer fit. In this episode of Of the Wild and Sacred, Sonia explores the quiet unraveling many women experience in midlife and perimenopause — the exhaustion of performing, the grief of outgrowing old versions of ourselves, and the body’s refusal to continue self-abandonment. This is an honest conversation about identity shifts, nervous system truth, emotional overwhelm, r...
25 Aug 2025
4: When ‘Having It All’ Isn’t Enough: The Quiet Ache for Meaning
What do you do when everything looks good on paper—but your heart is asking, Is this it? I’m sharing the subtle shift that happens when the striving starts to feel hollow, and the roles we’ve mastered no longer feel like who we are becoming. We’ll explore: Why that quiet ache for more is actually an invitationHow Ayurveda and the Wise Woman stage of life frame this moment as a turning pointThe signs your body, emotions, or intuition may be giving you right nowWhat to do when you’re feeling un...
23 Aug 2025
3: Where Did My Libido Go?
If your desire’s gone quiet lately, there’s nothing wrong with you. Your body’s just speaking in a different language now — one that doesn’t respond to pressure or pushing through. She’s asking to be felt. To be tended to. To be slowly nourished back to life. In this episode of Of the Wild and Sacred, I’m talking about libido — not just through the lens of hormones, but through the wisdom of Ayurveda and Tantra. We’ll explore ojas, depletion, nervous system safety, sensuality… and the deeper,...
21 Aug 2025
2: What’s Really Happening in Perimenopause
Most women are told that perimenopause is just about periods and hot flashes — but the truth runs deeper. In this episode, we uncover what’s really happening in your body, brain, and spirit during this powerful midlife shift. We explore how hormonal changes affect your nervous system, digestion, mood, and identity… and how Ayurveda sees this as a sacred threshold, not a medical problem. If you’ve felt tired, overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure what’s happening to you — this episode offers gr...
20 Aug 2025
1: The Messy Middle- My Midlife Awakening & Why This Podcast Exists
In this first episode of Of the Wild and Sacred, I open up about the real, raw experience of midlife as a woman navigating body changes, hormonal shifts, identity loss, grief, and a deep inner transformation. I share my personal story—from gaining weight and emotional ups and downs, to letting go of motherhood as I knew it, and grieving the loss of my sisters. This episode isn’t just about what’s changed—it’s about what’s awakening. I talk about how Ayurveda, embodiment, Kundalini, and sacred...
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