Best Serena Dyer Podcasts (2024)

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The one where we finally talk about Bridgerton 42:19

2y ago42:19

42:19

This week we're finally getting around to discussing all things Bridgerton, from the images and objects that make up the show's material cultures, to its sense of historical accuracy (or lack thereof!), and how it represents a range of identities both historical and contempory. We also talk about Regencycore, and both Caroline and Serena share thei…

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London Making Now at the Museum of London 44:54

2+ y ago44:54

44:54

This week, we're joined by Dr Danielle Thom and Dr Lucie Whitmore to talk about their exhibition, London Making Now, currently on show at the Museum of London. We chat about how the show explores London's diverse histories of craft, industry and making, and the exciting links to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that many of the objects on di…

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Festive Special 1:20:06

2+ y ago1:20:06

1:20:06

Join us this week for a very special festive edition of the Travelling Sisterhood of Art Historians podcast. First up, we (drunkenly) talk about some wintery images and objects, Christmas traditions, and our love for the Muppets' Christmas Carol. Then we're joined by our brilliant guests Sarah Coomer and Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll, who discuss why Chr…

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149 The Knowing w/Serena Dyer Pisoni 45:53

3y ago45:53

45:53

On this episode @SriMati reaches across spiritual horizon to share truths with @serenadyerpisoni and to discuss her book The Knowing: 11 Lessons To Understand The Quiet Urges of Your Soul, written in collaboration with her sister Saje. Serena and SriMati discuss the legacy of Serena's father Wayne Dyer and marvel at our capacity to find peace withi…

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Boxes (Crossover episode with Sew What?) 1:02:10

3y ago1:02:10

1:02:10

In this very special episode we're joined by the brilliant Isabella Rosner, the host of one of our favourite podcasts, Sew What?, to discuss our favourite historical boxes. Expect lots of innuendo, plus discussion of issues like craft and amateurism, historical accuracy (we don't believe in it), colonialism, and objects as potentially unstable sour…

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148 Unlocking Superpowers with Yoga Nidra w/Tracee Stanley 53:23

3+ y ago53:23

53:23

In this episode @SriMati connects with her great friend Tracee Stanley to share wisdom from Tracee's new book Radiant Rest. They discuss the live giving energy of Yoga Nidra and explore spirituality as the ultimate activism. What does it mean to be awake? Yoga Nidra is known as the Yoga of Sleep. It is a lucid practice that requires no previous exp…

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Wood 35:59

3+ y ago35:59

35:59

It’s our last episode of the series! Join us as we chat about all kinds of objects made from wood. Our guest is Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We talk about paying attention to our surroundings during lockdown, our shared love of antiquing, & generally enthuse about old furnitur…

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Stone 38:05

3+ y ago38:05

38:05

Join us this week as we discuss all things stone with the brilliant Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware. We chat about stylistic labels like neoclassicism, materials such as marble, and the relationship between classicising sculpture and race.By Maddy Pelling, Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer & Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

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Paint 45:48

3+ y ago45:48

45:48

This episode we’re talking about paint with the brilliant Kate Nichols, who tells us about how paint figures in her current project, a global history of Victorian art. We chat about what paint is and what it is made from, alongside some broader contexts such as portability, gender, messiness, animal-human relations, and global trade.…

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Paper 54:27

3+ y ago54:27

54:27

This episode, we're talking about a material that has been at the heart of a range of art historical practices for hundreds of years - paper! Join us as we discuss paper and its manifestations in the form of collages, paper cuts, inkblots, prints, and as labels. Our guest this week is Professor Catriona Macleod, who gives us a tantalising glimpse a…

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Wax 42:51

3+ y ago42:51

42:51

Join us this week as we explore the weird and wonderful world of wax with our guest, Professor Laura Engel. We talk about everything from the uncanny nature of wax, its resemblance to human flesh, celebrity, and of course, wax model-maker extraordinaire, Marie Tussaud!By Maddy Pelling, Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer & Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

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147 In Reverence of The Hopi w/Natasha Severino 52:52

3+ y ago52:52

52:52

In this episode @SriMati talks down the line with her soul friend, the makeup artist Natasha Severino @natashaseverino_makeup about Natasha's journey onto a healing, spiritual path through the teachings of The Hopi and her subsequent service and Ally-ship. They are using Julie's platform to raise funds for the Hopi via https://gofund.me/0616867f an…

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Glass 32:17

3+ y ago32:17

32:17

This week we explore the wonderful world of glass in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Our guest is Dr Kit Maxwell, Curator of European Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, and we discuss everything from shop windows, graffitied surfaces, technological processes, politeness, race, and consumable goods.…

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Ceramics 40:01

3+ y ago40:01

40:01

Join us this week as we discuss what ceramics tell us about political dramas, national mourning, ideas of the home, and childhood. Our guest is Professor Matt Smith, whose ceramics have been displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, and the V&A.By Maddy Pelling, Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer & Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

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Textiles 37:42

3+ y ago37:42

37:42

This week, we talk Marie Antoinette's fabric samples, bog bodies and patchwork-stealing criminals. Join us in conversation with our guest this week, Isabella Rosner, to hear more about her wonderful work on Quaker women's needlework...By Maddy Pelling, Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer & Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

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Podcast Trailer 5:29

3+ y ago5:29

5:29

The trailer episode for the Travelling Sisterhood of Art Historians podcast. Join us for a chat around our name, logo and what we'll be discussing in series one...By Maddy Pelling, Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer & Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

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146 Agree to Disagree 20:59

3+ y ago20:59

20:59

In this episode @SriMati reflects on time spent as the student of gurus in order to explore how we see ourselves in relation to others. We are all seeking love, connection and meaning and we are all informed by our individual experience. So why are we so quick to cancel a person when their belief systems differ from our own? How do we manage disagr…

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145 Sacred Wayshowers 34:00

3+ y ago34:00

34:00

In this episode @SriMati offers tips, tools and a guided meditation to help us become radiant and positive lights in these tender, challenging times. How can we show up for the people who matter most to us and how can we summon the courage to face our own mortality, understanding that doing so will vastly expand our experience of this lifetime? In …

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144 Infinite Creativity 19:11

3+ y ago19:11

19:11

In another inspirational episode @SriMati responds directly to a question from listener Tracey on creativity. How does the doyenne of plant based not-cheese manage multiple creative outlets, a brand new intentional food business and a large, active family? Recorded during Navratri, in reverence to and devotion of the goddess, Julie explores feminin…

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143 You Are The One 17:55

3+ y ago17:55

17:55

What is more beautiful than a being that knows itself? In this uplifting and inspiring episode @SriMati investigates her deeply held belief that you are the one you’ve been waiting for. In this epoch dominated by patriarchal, intellectual societies we are forever trying to reach a consensus on what is right and what is wrong. Yet if we examine crea…

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142 Protecting The Tongass w/Tyler Yarrow 53:22

4y ago53:22

53:22

In this special holiday episode @SriMati and activist @tyler_yarrow_ give thanks for the Tongass region of Southeast Alaska, one of the last untouched forest wildernesses on the planet. In this heart felt connection Tyler and Julie share their personal experience of the awe-inspiring beauty and near-incomprehensible vastness of this sacred region a…

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141 Gratitude Challenge 33:07

4y ago33:07

33:07

In this episode @SriMati offers up a challenge to each of us to act and react in gratitude, even in times of uncertainty. How can we learn to detach from our old habits and patterns of thinking and understand that we have the power to reframe our interactions so that we can create abundance, expansion and positivity? When we listen to our body we a…

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140 Adapting to Evolve 29:35

4y ago29:35

29:35

In this post-election episode @SriMati reflects on the times in our lives when we get fixated on outcomes and offers a different perspective on how we can adapt to change, creating space for evolution and expansion. During this monumental time of planetary transformation, we are being given the opportunity to return to the true heart resonance of e…

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139 The Power Of Not Knowing 24:06

4y ago24:06

24:06

In this special episode for the opening of election season @SriMati speaks of the beauty and power of not knowing. In these tense, tumultuous times, as the world holds its breath for a result, we have an opportunity to tune into the vibrations of our taught, held and imprinted beliefs and move through them into expansion. Human egos look for absolu…

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138 Owning Your Power 25:22

4y ago25:22

25:22

Do you have the courage to step into all that you are? In these trying and uncertain times @SriMati speaks on the vital truth of what it takes to own your own power. We have been programmed to believe that systems (financial, political, educational, correctional, medical) have the answers, and that some other being (political or otherwise) is going…

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137 Cancel Culture 19:23

4y ago19:23

19:23

What is going on, from a spiritual perspective, when people throw stones from glass houses? Without personal judgement, Julie muses on what it is that gives us a sense of entitlement or superiority that leads us to act upon our judgements in the on-line realm and on social media? There is an agenda that is seeking to divide us right now and Julie r…

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136 Stewardship of Money - Part 2 29:35

4y ago29:35

29:35

In the second of a two part series on money (including a guided meditation around 18mins) Julie moves on from our relationship with money into our stewardship of it. How can we become responsible guardians of this powerful energy and use it in impactful, intentional ways? How can we step into a vibrant, healthy flow, recognizing our heroic probabil…

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135 October's Sacred Sun 21:07

4y ago21:07

21:07

In this episode Julie speaks of the particular richness of her favorite month of the year and shares thoughts around the theme of devotion. The fall sun may shine bright in the mountains of Malibu, but the winter sun holds the power of rejuvenation all over the world as Julie expands into her choice to celebrate the new year in September and Octobe…

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134 Spiritualize The Money - Part 1 32:33

4y ago32:33

32:33

Money rules the world, but do we know how to handle it? How can we come to an awareness where we can work with money as an energy, examining its frequency within our individual energetic fields and bringing it into our lives in healthy and abundant ways? In the first of two episodes on the subject, Julie takes an honest look at our personal relatio…

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133 Doug Evans; Sprout Man and Spiritual Survivor! 1:04:22

4y ago1:04:22

1:04:22

In this episode Julie sits down with her dear friend, the entrepreneur Doug Evans, having just exchanged gifts in an energetic shift designed to bring into communion their respective lands in the Mojave desert and the mountains of Malibu. Doug’s extraordinary story runs through childhood delinquency into teenage enlistment before barreling out onto…

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132 The Next Evolution Of SriMu "Do Life - Not Cheese" 36:44

4y ago36:44

36:44

In this episode, in her role as the founder of artisan plant-based cheese company @SriMudolife, Julie sits down with Flowmaster Chloe Stein (@chloecleancuisine) to talk about the intersection of business and spirituality and the challenges of running a commercial kitchen during a pandemic. They lay out SriMu’s ongoing mission to bring intentionally…

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131 Current Planetary Mood with Vedic Astrologer Charlotte Benson 41:42

4y ago41:42

41:42

Real life fairy God Mother, Jyoti Devi Charlotte Benson reads the planetary forecast for current times. Charlotte is the president of the American College of Vedic Astrology and is a consulting jyotishi (Vedic astrologer.) During her 49- year career she has analyzed over 10,000 astrology charts, written, lectured, volunteered and travelled globally…

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