Niyah's Divine Garden
By Niyah Shalom
Here I discuss all things from my material life like books, kids, and career to my spiritual life like numerology, tarot, astrology and so much more. When I learn you learn.
Though full of love and light, there is also vulnerability, shadow, and ultimately transformation.
I've set the intention for this to be a place of learning and all my episodes will have distance reiki as well. If you are open to receive, you will.
Niyah's Divine GardenAug 10, 2021
Vulnerability| The Fast Girl
This was going to be a Live but I needed to really have space to just talk and be vulnerable without having to mince words. Plus I was confident I was going to cry which was correct.
Today's Episode spawned from question I saw on TikTok.
TRIGGER WARNING
My hope is that this episode adds some additional perspective and inspires you to learn more about how we treat black bodies, especially those of black women.
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Random Thoughts on a Friday
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A Response to A TikTok for My Brothas
Me Planning For Juneteenth
Trying to decide what poems I'm doing for Juneteenth this year
A Garden Full of Iyas| Our Orisha/Ifa Journey
I've wanted to do this episode for awhile and I'm so excited we were able to finally come together and share our stories in our own words. We have both a collective and individual experience with Orisha and Ifa.
How did we begin?
What brought us to Orisha?
Our experience and more...
Feel free to comment your questions regarding OUR journey collectively or as Individuals.
My new Ifa Spiritual Mentorship program From Self to Source with Ifa kicks off on May 19th. If you haven't enrolled and would like to be sure to reach out to me at iyadaniyah@niyahsdivinegarden.com
Thanks as always for listening!
Psychic Gifts | A Practically Spiritual Look at the Clairs
Have you ever met a psychic? Of course you have! You're a psychic!! You may not have hit the spiritual gym so you probably don't realize it. Or you have but you don't think about the ways the gifts show up in your practical life.
My intention with this live was to go through the Clairs and how you have all experienced one or some of them, even if you don't consider yourself "psychic"
What gift(s) most resonated with you if you don't identify as psychic? What gifts are most dominant for you if you are psychic?
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Conversation on Divine Feminine with Special Guest Yashua Lyles (@lovethycelf)
I started following this King on TikTok and he has been dropping gems around the Divine Feminine that are closely aligned to my own understanding of Divine Feminine Energy. I just really wanted to talk 1 on 1 and see if it's the same energy and I truly enjoyed the conversation.
Looking forward to a Part II of this chat.
Check him out on his social media... all platforms as @lovethycelf
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Garden Chat| Abundance and More
I'm not sure what prompted the thought about our relationship with abundance. I felt like I should share as the downloads began to unfold. Let me know your thoughts and feelings.
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From the Archive - Me and My Shadow
Another Bonus Episode from the Archives. Me and My Shadow. Trigger Warning. I mention Assault though I don't dig too far into it.
Finding An Elder or Mentor
This is actually Part 3 of a response to a video I watched. Here's Part 2 if you decide to watch it. I try to summarize everything here.
From the Archive - Kids and Work
I actually recorded this months ago in the car. I was thinking about work and how we start talking to our children about work. Can we do it differently?
Gabriel and I - Lasting Impacts
Just reflecting on my pregnancy with my first born and the lasting impact he has had on my life even after transitioning.
TRIGGER WARNING - Infant Loss is mentioned
Ancestor Veneration as a Healing Modality
This was an early morning download regarding Ancestor Veneration being a Healing Modality
Happy Heavenly Birthday Gabriel| Releasing Grief
Today is my first born son's 8th Heavenly Birthday. I realized the weight of his passing wasn't quite there. Sadness for sure. I just wasn't gripped by grief. I decided to share what this journey has been like for me.
Initiation of Not| My Journey
I have been listening to a few videos talking about African Americans not being welcomed in certain traditions and not needing initiation in general. Just wanted to share my thoughts and feelings as someone in the Diaspora that did initiatie.
Gabriel and I | Journey to Motherhood, Healing from Loss
My First Born Son, Gabriel, would have turned 8 this week. Felt like I wanted to do a tribute to him that is also a means to inspire, encourage, and empower some. Hi I'm Iya Daniyah. I was diagnosed with PCOS in my early 20s. Initially, I didn't want children so it didn't matter much. Then one day I did, and I couldn't. Then, when I least expected it... he was in my womb. I decided to do a series of story time videos to honor his memory and talk about the healing journey I've undergone as it relates to him.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! When Should You Set Intentions?
Happy New Year! Welcome back! It's that time of year again. Time for the conversation around when to set goals and intentions for the new year. What I often hear as the argument is that nothing is growing in winter. Everything is still, resting, etc.
Well after some research, that is not necessarily 100% true. With that in mind, these are just my thoughts around setting intentions, planting seeds, and why resolutions may work for some and not others.
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Garden Chat| God Thoughts
I was channeling and wanted to talk about God. Take what resonates, leave the rest. All is well.
Garden Chat| Channeled Stream of Thought
A little Stream of Consciousness Garden Chat about implementing homework from your teachers and support, persevering when the physical manifestation isn't there, reminder to Brothas that they are gods, Sistas are goddesses, not limiting the connection to the Creator.
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Week Ahead Forecast/Reading Sept 5th - 11th 2022
I really enjoy doing forecasts so I'm revisiting it and doing it a different way
When I do my own week ahead I'll do one for the collective
- Any important transits
- Moon Phases to key in on
- Numerology of the week
- Then I pulled an energy, advice, and self care card
- I'll also throw out some things to do based on the moon
Please let me know how you like this format and if I should keep it going.
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My favorite astrology channels so far
Nightline Astrology September Forecast is here
Astrology with Heather has a Full Moon in Pisces forecast here
About Being a Death Doula
I felt called to do a quick chat about being a death doula
- What it is
- How I became one
- What it is we do
If you have additional questions, please feel free to send my way. If it's a lot I may do a live Q&A to address them and others.
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What's in a Name? Name and Numerology
I am looking to grow my numerology offering and decided to dig more in to what you can learn from a name and WOW! I just wanted to share all the great things that you learn about yourself based on your birth name.
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Garden Chat| Love and Harmony
This Garden Chat is about Love, especially in the #blackcommunity There is so much noise about who we can be and what disqualifies someone from having a meaningful relationship with their divine counterpart, I just wanted to share some things to consider along your journey to a meaningful and harmonious connection. These are simply my opinions. Everyone has their own journey to follow. At the end of the day the choice is between you and your inner spirit.
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Garden Chat| Abundance is Feminine
As usual I'm driving in the car getting downloads. The mental talk today was spawned by the idea that successful women are operating outside of their feminine energy when Abundance & Prosperity are aspects of Feminine Energy.
Relationship Talk| Divine Connection
I have avoided doing this honestly. However, I decided to go ahead and just say what I was thinking and feeling regarding all this relationship mess... "masculine man" "feminine woman" BLAAAAAAAAAAH
If you don't get anything else - find your match. That's it. Manifest that.
What do you do when you hate your job?
Sometimes you hit that wall and you're like, "I can't do this anymore." What does it mean? What do you do?
My Bffs are Sango, Ogun, and Obatala
I was driving and the thought comes to me how the energy of these 3 Orisha are very prominent in my 3 closest friends. How does it show up and why do I need it? Just some stream of consciousness.
Naruto and Orisha| The 9 Gates
I know you are thinking what in the world. Trust me when it plopped in my head I was too. I laughed out loud. And as it unfolded it was pure genius. I had been binge watching Naruto so I'm sure my Favorite Self felt it an appropriate analogy.
Hopefully my spiritual Blerds will appreciate it. LOL
Morning Chat| How My Ancestors Got Here
I heard something on social media related to our (Black and African) ancestors in America. I had been mulling it over when it dawned on me, "You're a whole medium. Why don't you simply ASK"
After the profound Duh I had the most amazing conversation. Confirmation and education. It's not always about help me with ... Sometimes it's about the wisdom you can glean.
Success - Have It and the Love too
This morning I was reflecting on harmony and balance. I was also considering whether or not someone could be a person of vision and still make time to be with someone they love and care for.
Here's the blog I was writing earlier - https://www.niyahsdivinegarden.com/post/greatness-is-found-in-harmony-balance
Mother's Can't Raise Sons to be Men??
I was having a conversation with a gentleman and this is what he told me. My Aries moon had words but I was calm and cool headed. Instead I listened. And there was one question I never got an answer to. What is it about being a man that a woman can't teach?
See I have a strong believe that children of all genders need their mother and father (assuming their parents are healthy influences in their life). If you listened to episode 2, this one is from that same morning as well.
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What's in a Name?
Just thinking about the power of a name. I'm going to do a numerology series on my social media NiyahShalom (TikTok and IG) around Personality numbers and the energy of the vibrations of your name.
From the Archives| Practical Dreaming
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Acts of Worship
This episode came up in a stream of ideas. I recorded them all one morning. This one talks about redefining what an act of worship looks like in your life.
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The Cool Girlfriend
I was listening to a pick a card on YouTube and omg... loud. I was the "cool girlfriend". Sitting and realizing that was just a cover for people pleasing.
Reflections| Pre Season Bonus
I called this episode reflections because that's pretty much what I was doing at the time. Just reflecting on my journey up to that moment. The first episode of the new season will be on the first Wednesday of August.
Mother Earth Manifestation Challenge
Proactive apologies on the audio. I literally woke up and recorded so you got the bedroom voice and me trying not to wake my kids up. My bad. Turn me up in your headphones.
Thank you so much to my listeners. This past year and change has been so cool. I'll get the last couple episodes uploaded soon.
This has been rolling around in my head for a couple of days now. What I'll say here is that if we can manifest all these amazing things, why haven't we worked on manifesting a cleaner planet. I already know it's possible. When everyone was home, or at least mostly home, I saw birds and animals I hadn't seen in ages. The air even smelled different. It was lovely. So I already KNOW it's possible.
A challenge. A 30 day manifestation challenge. Would it take more than 30 days to clean the entire planet? Who knows. Time is a construct. It doesn't actually exist on higher planes. This is simply us seeing what we WILL accomplish. The sheer fact i got the idea says we already did something. I'm just trying to be in vibrational alignment with it physically. Aren't you curious to see?
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Awakening Stories in the Black Community| Special Guest Habeeb Morgan
Being able to have this conversation with another member of my family was just amazing. This time it was with my uncle. Listen as he shares his perspective of awakening when raised as a Hebrew Israelite and what that looked like.
These episodes have been amazing. If you haven't listened to the others I encourage you to take time out and listen to all of the stories.
If you have your own story that you'd be willing to share I'd love to speak to you about it. Send me a DM on my IG @niyahshalom
Check out my uncle on his social media
@JakimMorgan on Instagram
YouTube Jakim's Cigar Journal - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUxIQH9NTMqTXrbs1VfXu1w
Awakening Stories in the Black Community| Special Guest Nikwonn Robinson Cooke
It is such an honor to be a medium in which these stories are shared. This is the 4th in episode in the series and I am still learning new things.
Nikwonn is a very dear friend and I was honored when she agreed to come on my podcast and share her story. I even learned things about her that I didn't know.
Why am I hosting these series?
It pains me to think that my people still believe that we had no relationship with the Creator prior to colonization. This deep seeded belief has those in organized religion judging their brothers and sisters for breaking a way to experience a more traditional and authentic relationship with the Most High. My intention is for these conversations to bring these journeys out of the shadows into the light. To illuminate the various aspects of these journeys that are common among us and unique.
I would love to talk to more of you. If you are interested in sharing your story please reach out to me niyahsgardenllc@outlook.com and put Awakening Story in the subject. If you would rather not be on video but you want to share I don't have a problem reading your story.
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Living Your Potential
Love Thoughts| I Want to Know Your Favorite Color
I've been in a love mindset. I need to see what's happening with Venus right now. Yesterday, I did a YouTube about Love being a part of your spiritual journey.
Be sure to check that out here.
This is about those "cheesy", "surface level" questions that people feel like have no value when you are getting to know someone. I personally want to know each layer of the person. I want to peel back from the surface and learn you. I have time to enjoy the unfolding process.
Awakening in the Black Community| Special Guest Belinda Wilder-Cheatam
This is the second episode in the series dedicated to learning why people of color, specifically black people in the States, have begun tapping back into their traditional spiritual roots and away from organized religion.
My intention is to show the various nuances of the journeys and educate those that aren't on a similar journey as to why this journey is even happening within our community. I'll feature a different guest each episode with a different practice or take on spirituality outside of organized religion.
This episode features veteran, yoni steam practitioner, youth advocate, entrepreneur, and licensed professional counselor, Belinda Wilder-Cheatam, founder of Divine Energy, LLC.
My favorite thing about this conversation was the unity of traditional practices and western religion. Very beautifully illustrated.
You can find Belinda on Instagram @Yonihealing803
Facebook business profile - https://www.facebook.com/Divine-Energy-LLC
The Witcher & The Writer Carefully Brewed Stories| Heads or Tails by Sybil Ward
This witch daughter wants to honor her writing mother.
My mom is an amazing writer and I simply want to share her art with everyone. This series is dedicated to short stories and tales that she's written over the hears. This is perfect as we gear up for her most recent novel starring the amazing Dashira Coffin, a cartomancer that saves the day.
"Heads or Tails" is a short tale by Sybil Ward that stars Lena and the, ever pleasant, Jarred. It's a snippet of a much longer story.
Enjoy it!
Awakening in the Black Community | Special Guest Cheree Hill
This is the second episode in the series dedicated to learning why people of color, specifically black people in the States, have begun tapping back into their traditional spiritual roots and away from organized religion.
My intention is to show the various nuances of the journesy and educate those that aren't on a similar journey as to why this journey is even happening within our community. I'll feature a different guest each episode with a differetn practice or take on spirituality outside of organized religion.
This episodes features veteran, nurse, leader, entrepreneur, and my cousin, Cheree Hill the angel of bookkeeping at Tranquility Bookkeeping Services.
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Awakening in the Black Community| Conversation with Ricky Prestige Leverett Jr.
This is the first in a series of episodes dedicated to learning why people of color, specifically black people in the States, have begun tapping back into their traditional spiritual roots and away from organized religion. My intention is to show the various nuances of the journeys and educate those that aren't on a similar journey as to why this journey is even happening within our community.
I'll feature a different guest each episode with a different practice or take on spirituality outside of organized religion.
This episode features the author, public speaker, metaphysician, minister, and so much more... Ricky Prestige Leverett, Jr. author of "Mind Alignment| Wake Up Your Stolen Greatness through Mind Power" and his newest book "Mind Alignment 2.0 Paradigm Shift of the Black Mind". Ricky is a specialist when it comes to mind science, haven spoken, taught, and studied the topic for over ten years.
I was very honored to speak with this brother. He has a wealth of knowledge. I can't wait to get his second book.
You can connect with Ricky:
His website: https://www.mindalign369.com
Buy His Book here - https://mindalign369.com/collections/books/products/mind-alignment-2-0-paradigm-shift-of-the-black-mind
Instagram and TikTok @prestigespeaks
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Are you black with an awakening journey that you want to share? Send an email to niyahsgardenllc@outlook.com and we can look at having you as a guest speaker in the future.
The Melanated Meadow is my summer vendor event on June 18th (right in time for Juneteenth) in Augusta, GA showcasing the melanated and indigenous spiritual community. Send me a message if you are interested in being a vendor.
Power of Intention
Ancestor Veneration| Happy Birthday Gabriel
This special episode around my ancestral practice centers on it and my relationship with my first born son, Gabriel Alexander Haynes. How did he influence my practice? What have I learned of our connection? How does it help my healing?
Perfectly Pagan | It's Ok to be Different
I was goofing off and learned a friend doesn't observe Valentine's Day and shared a video about how it was pagan. My response was that I'm aware it has pagan roots, as do most holidays, but I have a very different relationship with The Most High. The urge to go deeper was overwhelming. I had been wondering what message I was meant to share today and he was apparently the muse I needed.
My Ifa Journey | Ancestor Veneration
I decided to do a special on ancestor veneration. I started with the basics on this episode to lay a foundation. Tomorrow I will do a special one around having a child as my ancestor.