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The Vital Goddess

The Vital Goddess

By: Dianne Shepherd
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Venusian Arts for the Modern & Mystical Woman.

Here we explore all things Venus; Beauty, Abundance, Sensuality, Sexuality, Pleasure, Love & Desire-Based Living.

I'm your host, Dianne Shepherd, certified holistic sexuality coach and wing woman for your Inner Venus!

I teach a unique approach to Taoist and Tantric practices to help you heal your relationship to your sensuality, reclaim your pleasure and tap into the creative life force of your sexual energy.

If you're ready to connect with your unique expression of the Goddess of Love,
Welcome to the Venusian Revolution!

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Episodes
  • Pleasure Is the Portal: Bringing Your 2026 Mantra to Life
    Dec 19 2025

    As we close out 2025 and stand at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, this episode offers a gentle, embodied way to meet the year ahead.

    If you’ve chosen a word or mantra for 2026 but it hasn’t quite landed in your body yet, this one's for you.

    In this final episode of the year, Dianne explores why pleasure is the missing link in manifestation and how intentions come alive when the body is included.

    Inspired by the idea that affirmations are most powerful when we’re “in the vortex,” this episode translates manifestation into the language of the nervous system, breath, presence, and sensual embodiment.

    Inside this episode:

    • Why your body must believe your mantra before it can unfold
    • How pleasure creates the internal safety needed for creation
    • What it truly means to be “in the vortex” from a somatic perspective
    • A gentle embodied practice to help your 2026 word come alive

    This is a threshold episode. A moment to slow down, soften, and allow your next season to emerge from within.


    If you’re feeling the pull to be supported in this work, the Solstice portal into the Vital Goddess Mastery is open for a few more days.

    Join us in the VGM Temple at 50% off our normal tuition.

    You can learn more and join us here.



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    36 mins
  • Slow Down and Rejuvenate: A Solstice Breathwork Ritual for You
    Dec 12 2025

    In this episode, we slow down together for a deeply nourishing end-of-year ritual designed for women in midlife. As the Solstice approaches and the year begins to close, your body often wants softness, warmth and replenishment more than pressure or resolutions.

    This episode honors that need with a sensual Taoist practice called Kidney Breathing. It is one of the most restorative feminine practices for rebuilding vitality, sensuality, and emotional resilience.

    We begin by acknowledging what this year has asked of you and inviting your nervous system into a state of rest.

    Then we move into a slow, guided breathwork ritual that helps you release exhaustion and refill your inner well.

    This practice supports your hormonal balance, your sensual energy, your mood, and your sense of inner rootedness as you prepare for the new year.

    Kidney Breathing is especially powerful for women in midlife.

    It nourishes your yin essence, awakens your second spring energy, and helps you enter the new year grounded and deeply centered instead of force and burnout.

    This episode is meant to feel like a warm bath for your entire system. By the end, you will feel fuller, softer, more centered, and more ready to step into the new year from a place of grounded feminine power.

    Inside this episode:
    • Why the end of the year can feel heavy for women in midlife
    • Why your kidneys are key to your vitality and sensuality
    • How to release the emotional residue of the year
    • A guided short, sweet and sensual Kidney Breathing ritual
    • How to prepare your body for a new year with softness and intention

    If you loved this episode, share it with a friend who needs a moment of deep nourishment.

    And if you want to go deeper, come join me inside my mystery school where we practice these arts all year long.

    The Solstice presale portal is open at 50% off our normal tuition.

    Learn more and join us here.


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    29 mins
  • The Voice Beneath Your Voice: Awakening the Feminine Core Channel
    Dec 5 2025

    In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful mysteries of the feminine body:

    Your true voice doesn’t begin in your throat.
    It rises from your yoni, your womb, and your heart.
    And only then becomes sound.

    If you’ve ever felt silenced, unsure, disconnected from your truth, or stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing… this episode will feel like a homecoming.

    Together, we’ll explore:

    🌹 The real origin of your voice: and why the throat is actually the final expression, not the starting point
    🌹 The yoni voice: your instinctual, erotic intuition
    🌹 The womb voice: your inner oracle, your deep feminine knowing
    🌹 The heart voice: the bridge that softens truth into compassion
    🌹 The sacred feminine core channel that connects all four centers
    🌹 Why midlife is the exact moment this voice wants to come alive
    🌹 A sensual breath ritual to reconnect your yoni, womb, heart and throat
    🌹 How to speak from your body rather than your mind
    🌹 The difference between performing your voice and living your voice

    This episode is an invitation to return to the version of you who doesn’t dilute her truth…
    doesn’t shrink her voice…
    and doesn’t silence her knowing to make others comfortable.

    Inside this transmission, you’ll feel your voice rise from somewhere deeper:
    from your sensual, wise, ancient feminine core.

    Take a breath…
    and let’s awaken the voice beneath your voice.


    Ready for a deeper dive?

    If this episode stirred your feminine soul and you’re craving a deeper journey into your sensual power, your inner oracle, and your embodied truth… the early presale portal for The Vital Goddess Mastermind is now open.

    You can explore more and join us right here.



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    28 mins
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