Sacred Integration: Strength, Softness & the Super Full Moon in Cancer
In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026.
Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm.
With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and action into a more integrated way of living.
In this episode, I share a guiding philosophy for the year ahead that I call Sacred Integration — the devotion to honoring both structure and sensation, discipline and pleasure, fitness and sensuality as essential wellness allies rather than opposites.
I also offer a personal reflection on returning to a consistent fitness routine through the barre method while deepening my devotion to my Jade Egg practice, and how this balance has brought greater harmony to my body and nervous system in midlife.
You’ll be guided through a 10-minute ish embodiment ritual, designed to help you feel this integration in your body — grounding strength without force, softness without collapse — and to begin the year rooted in rhythm rather than extremes.
This episode is a reset.
A place to soften, breathe, and come home to your core and design the year ahead in aligment.
🌊 In This Episode
Why the Cancer Super Full Moon is a powerful moment for homecoming
How Venus and Mars working together support lasting wellness and intimacy
Why wellness practices can quietly become unwell when taken to extremes
Sacred Integration as a new paradigm for midlife vitality
A gentle Lunar Love embodiment ritual to anchor strength and softness
📕 A Trio of Journal Prompts
1. Strength with Tenderness
Where in my life am I ready to cultivate strength that feels supportive rather than demanding?
What would it mean to let my body set the pace?
2. Softness with Structure
Where have I been craving more softness, rest, or pleasure — and what kind of gentle structure could help protect that space?
3. My Personal Sweet Spot
As I begin this year, what does Sacred Integration look like for me?
How do strength and softness want to walk together in my daily life, my wellness, and my relationships?
Dive Deeper:
If this episode resonates and you’re longing for ongoing rhythm, embodiment, and support, the $99 Taste of the Temple offers a gentle initiation into the Vital Goddess Mastery — a space to explore Sacred Integration through breath, sensual self-care, and sisterhood.
With deep gratitude, I honor my barre teachers Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, creators of Core Barre Fit.
Their pioneering work and devotion to intelligent strength, integrity, and longevity in the body have profoundly shaped how I relate to fitness and embodied wellness in midlife.
Learn more about their work here