The Magic in the Middle

Sarah Adams Marr Dumas
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The Magic in the Middle is a weekly podcast where science meets spirituality—and life begins to flow with greater joy, clarity, and ease. Hosted by Sarah Adams Marr Dumas, this show explores the “middle” the space, the void, between effort and ease, logic and intuition, science and soul. It’s in this space that inner wisdom rises and real transformation happens. Each episode offers thoughtful reflections and grounded insights to help you reconnect with yourself, trust your inner guidance, and allow life to unfold more naturally. As you learn to meet yourself in the middle, decisions feel clearer, energy shifts, and life begins to feel lighter, richer, and more aligned. This podcast is for curious, open-hearted people who know there is more available in life;  more joy, more abundance, more ease and want to live a life that feels truly wonderful from the inside out. This is living The Magic in the Middle. New episodes drop every Monday.

  1. 4d ago

    Ep 37: Becoming Your Own Oracle: The Nervous System, Ritual, and the Intelligence of the Body

    Send us Fan Mail What if the answer you keep searching for outside yourself has been living in your body all along? Your nervous system is not your enemy. It is your ally, and it has been trying to keep you safe since the day you were born. In this conversation, Sarah sits down with somatic psychotherapist, author, artist, and ritualist Rose Rita James, author of Tears Are Holy Water: Somatic Wisdom and Rituals for Feeling and Aliveness, to explore how listening to your body can change the way you know yourself and the world. This is a warm, grounded, deeply practical conversation for anyone who is ready for real change, and who wants it to feel safe, gentle, and possible. In this episode, you will learn: Why your nervous system can flare up even when the change is good for you, and why familiar patterns can feel safer than healthy onesHow to grow at your own pace using titration, the gentle art of working in small doses so your body can trust the processWhat “somatic” really means from Rita's perspective, and how the mind, body, and emotions all get a seat at the tableWhy ritual is an ancient technology for feeling safe, and the simple structure behind every ritual: set the space, orient, ground, work briefly with what is present, and close with careWhat to do in the moment when panic rises, including how to feel your feet, lengthen your exhale, and find your choice pointsHow to find your embodied yes and your embodied no, and why saying no can actually deepen your relationshipsWhat it means to become your own oracle, trusting an inner knowing that does not depend on outside approvalWhy small steps, curiosity, play, and safety are the foundation for lasting growthYou do not have to push through, fix yourself, or do it all at once. You only have to begin where you are, with curiosity. You are the magic. And the middle is the pause where your body’s wisdom finally gets to speak. Continue this journey: Practice with Sarah live, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, for 30 to 35 minutes of Spring Forest Qigong: https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page Download the free Fire Horse Journey and bring these practices into your mornings, middays, and evenings: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong Get Rita’s book, Tears Are Holy Water: Somatic Wisdom & Rituals For Feeling and Aliveness - https://a.co/d/0c740A6T Follow Rita for free somatic mini lessons, journal prompts, and tiny rituals on Instagram - @roseritajames, Threads - @roseritajames, and TikTok - @roseritajames Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  2. Oct 5

    Ep 36: Transformation Starts With One Thought: Your Life Can Change in a Single Moment

    Send us Fan Mail What if the change you have been waiting for does not take a year, a retreat, or a whole new life? What if it begins with the very next thought you choose? Welcome to October, the month of changing and transforming. Your guide for this journey is Sarah, a certified Spring Forest Qigong practice group leader and trainer who has walked from her own darkest season to a life she describes as magnificent, and who is here to show you that the same shift is possible for you. Transformation is not about becoming someone better. It is about revealing the powerful being who has been inside you all along. In this episode, you will learn: How to change your mind and your mood in any moment, using a breath, a movement, or a one to five minute meditationA simple way to interrupt the thought loops that keep you stuck, and choose a thought that supports you insteadThe story of the two wolves, and the question that can change your week: which one are you feeding today?How to treat your mind like a garden, pulling out what no longer belongs and planting what you want to growWhy fall can stir up grief or heaviness, and how to move toward contentment one small step at a time, without pretending you are not hurtingWhy the little light inside even your hardest feelings is the part of you seeking to emergeHow Penny Makris' intuitive calendar for October, changing and transforming, can guide your monthYou do not have to fix yourself to begin. You only have to be willing to play with change and see what happens. You are the magic. And the middle is the pause where everything begins to shift. Continue this journey: Practice with Sarah live, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, for 30 to 35 minutes of Spring Forest Qigong: https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page Download the free Fire Horse Journey and bring these practices into your mornings, middays, and evenings: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong Penny Makris Intuitive Calendar 2026 - https://www.zazzle.com/2026_seasonal_monthly_calendar-256392882718449413 Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  3. Sep 28

    Ep 35: Take Your Power Back, Then Choose Contentment: A Fire Horse Journey

    Send us Fan Mail Your phone is not in charge of who you are today. You are. And it is time to take your power back. We just crossed the equinox, equal daylight and equal night, and your body is moving right along with the Earth into fall. This is the season when your lung energy comes on duty, and Sarah is back with week two of the Fire Horse Journey, precision and purpose. In this episode, you will learn: Why the pause, that quiet space between one thought and the next, is not wasted time but where the magic actually happensA morning practice that puts you back in charge of your own day, before your phone tells you who to beA midday white light purification breath that balances your lung energy and clears anything gray, heavy, or staleAn evening energy audit journal to gently notice what is feeding you and what is draining you, no judgment requiredWhy the fire horse year can push you toward overextension, taking on too much because everything feels possible and urgentHow the metal element offers the corrective, discernment, quality over quantity, and the loving no that protects your yesSarah shares this from a place of real experience, having known deep darkness herself, and speaks directly to the magnificent being that already lives inside you, the one that is always worth the few quiet minutes it takes to come home to yourself. Contentment is a choice. You are worth choosing it. You are the magic in the middle. Continue this journey: Join Sarah live on zoom for Qigong practice, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, link is here https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page And deepen this work with the full Fire Horse Journey, free, here is the link https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  4. Sep 21

    Ep 34: The Art of Letting Go: A Fall Equinox Practice for Your Lungs and Your Life

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome, welcome, welcome. As Sarah worked in her garden this week, hands in the soil, she felt the season shifting, and it reminded her of something we forget every fall: this isn't a time to shut down, it's a time to nurture. The equinox is here, that perfect balance of yin and yang, equal light and equal dark. In Qigong, this is when our lung energy system comes on duty, the metal element, governing grief, depression, and release. If you have been feeling a heaviness you cannot quite explain, your body may simply be responding to the season. That is not something wrong with you. That is your body doing exactly what it was designed to do. In this episode, Sarah walks through the fire horse journey week four, metal week, clarity and conservation. You will learn a morning practice using the reticular activating system to direct your day before your phone does it for you, a midday Qigong lung activation you can do standing, sitting, or lying down, and an evening journaling practice for naming what you are ready to release. You do not have to release everything tonight. Just simply name it. Sarah also shares Master Chunyi Lin's pear tea recipe for lung support, why gratitude and contentment work together to raise your vibration, and why letting go is not losing, it is making space for what wants to grow and express next. You are the magic. The middle is the pause, the contentment, the beautiful emptiness where healing lives. Continue this journey: Join Sarah live on zoom for Qigong practice, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, link is here https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page And deepen this work with the full Fire Horse Journey, free, here is the link https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  5. Sep 14

    Ep 33: You Are Never Alone: A Message of Oneness From the Other Side

    Send us Fan Mail There is a feeling you may know well. Scattered. Lost. Like you have misplaced your map in the middle of nowhere and there is no signal, no signs, no direction. Just you, floating, not knowing which way to go. That feeling has a name. Separation. And it is the one thing Sarah wants to talk about today. In this deeply intimate and quietly extraordinary episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah opens with one of her most vulnerable personal stories, the moment as a young child when she shut down her gifts completely after being met with fear instead of wonder. And then she traces the journey back. Back to reconnection. Back to oneness. Back to the spiritual team that has been there all along, waiting to be asked. And then she asks them to speak. What follows is a channeled transmission from Sarah's spiritual team, arriving mid-episode with a message so tender and so clear that you may need to listen twice. About separation and oneness on this planet right now. About why communities like the Marvelous Cheese Circle are literally raising the vibration of the earth. About birth angels and 5D consciousness and why it is absolutely okay to skip through life like a child. About why you are worthy of the dream. All of you. Right now. In this episode you will discover: Why separation from your inner spirit and your spiritual team creates feelings of fear, lostness, and terror, and why reconnection is simpler than you have ever been toldThe story of how Sarah shut down her gifts at three, four, or five years old in her mother's kitchen, and how the Rampa School of Enlightenment helped her find her way backHow the military and the CIA use remote viewing and what that tells us about how powerful we actually are as human beingsThe simple journal practice for building a relationship with your spiritual team, including how to prepare your body, call them forward, and let the words pour through without editing or judgmentWhat the spiritual team says directly about separation and oneness on this planet right now, and why focusing on your neighbors, your communities, and the love around you is the most powerful thing you can doWhy your imaginary childhood friend was almost certainly not imaginary at allHow birth angels work, what they protect you from, and why they are with you until your agreed upon exit from this lifeWhy it is not only okay but encouraged to be happy, to skip, to live in wonder, even when the world around you feels heavySarah floats when she is connected. That is what her spiritual team says. And they want that for you too. You did not come here without help. You came here with an entire team. And all you have to do is say hello. Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com. The Fire Horse Journey without AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong The Fire Horse Journey with AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-ai Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  6. Sep 7

    Ep 32: The Mirror Never Lies: What Your Life Is Reflecting Back to You Right Now

    Send us Fan Mail Look around you. The people, the places, the experiences surrounding you right now are not happening to you. They are showing you something about you. And that is the most liberating thing you will ever learn. In this rich, rain-soaked, deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah opens with the sound of a rainstorm pouring down outside her window and the feeling of pure blessing it brings, and then delivers one of the most powerful teachings she has ever shared. The mirror. The idea, confirmed by quantum physics and brought to life through her own raw experience, that everything outside of us is reflecting back what is happening within us. Not as judgment. As information. As invitation. Including a stolen bike, an orchid at the door, and a neighbor who said exactly what Sarah needed to hear to finally heal a belief she did not even know she was carrying. This is not a passive listen. This is a practice. And by the end, you will have a completely new way of seeing everything around you. In this episode you will discover: Why the people, places, and experiences surrounding you right now are mirrors of your inner world, and how to read them with curiosity and compassion instead of judgmentHow the observer effect of quantum physics confirms that you get to choose what you observe, and why that choice is the most powerful creative act available to youThe affirmation practice that works even when you do not believe it yet, and how to find the version that your nervous system can actually receive, starting with I am willingA complete somatic healing technique for when something in your outer world triggers a feeling you do not like, locating it in your body, breathing Christ consciousness into it, dissolving it with golden liquid light, and choosing a new belief from a clean slateWhy you were born onto this earth for abundance, health, vitality, joy, and friendship, and how every low feeling is simply your body showing you where your thoughts have drifted out of alignment with that truthThe bike story, fully resolved. The neighbor. The orchid. The words that confirmed the oasis was real all along. And what the whole experience taught Sarah about the beliefs she did not know she was carryingWhy you do not need to relive your pain to heal it, and what science is now confirming about the damage of returning to old wounds again and againSarah also shares, with total honesty, that she once gathered the means to end her life. And that life is now so good, so supported, so full of evidence of the universe's love, that she tells you this not for sympathy but as proof. The mirror can change. You can change it. And she is living proof. You are not broken. You are not bad. You are a powerful creator who gets to choose what comes next. And right now, the rain is washing the slate clean. Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com. The Fire Horse Journey without AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong The Fire Horse Journey with AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-ai Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  7. Aug 31

    Ep 31: Harvest and Celebrate: It Is Time to Honor How Far You Have Come

    Send us Fan Mail You have been doing the work. Planting seeds. Peeling back layers. Shining your light even when it felt scary. And this month, September, Penny Makress's intuitive calendar has one beautiful instruction for all of us. Harvest and celebrate. In this joyful, luminous, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah invites you to stop for a moment and actually receive the goodness of everything you have been growing inside yourself. Not someday. Not when everything is perfect. Right now. Because the harvest is already here and it belongs to you. Drawing on the Qigong practice of harvesting chi after a practice, the wisdom of Penny Makris' September calendar, and her own journey from the shyest, most self-loathing child to a woman who at 62 is finally stepping fully into the light she was always meant to carry, Sarah makes the case for celebration as a spiritual practice. A radical, healing, necessary one. Because here is what Sarah knows: the light has always been in you. You were born with it. And everything you have done to uncover it, every layer peeled, every hard season walked through, every moment of courage, deserves to be harvested and honored. In this episode you will discover: What harvesting chi means in Qigong and why the practice of actively receiving and celebrating the energy you have activated is just as important as the practice itselfHow Penny Makress's September theme of harvesting and celebrating connects to the full arc of this year's calendar, from visioning in January to shining and creating in August, and why this month is the natural completion of everything you have been buildingWhy celebration is not vanity or performance but a deeply healing act of self recognition that signals to your body, your nervous system, and the universe that you are ready for moreHow Christ consciousness lives within every single human being and what the brightening of light on this planet right now has to do with your own inner workWhy it took Sarah 62 years to finally step into being seen, and what she wants you to know if you have been feeling called but holding backHow to harvest and celebrate even if you have not done Qigong, even if you feel like you have not done enough, even if the outside of your life does not yet reflect the inside work you have been quietly doingWhy creating from within is where the wholeness lives, and how the art, the music, the business, the relationships you want on the outside will be richer and more authentic than anything you could force from the outside inAnd if you have ever thought who cares what I have to say or what I know, this episode is a direct, loving answer to that question. You are a piece of God. Your spiritual team is watching and cheering. And this month, they are harvesting and celebrating you right along with you. Get Penny Makris beautiful intuitive calendar at the link in the show notes. Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com. Penny Makris Calendar - https://www.zazzle.com/2026_seasonal_monthly_calendar-256392882718449413 The Fire Horse Journey without AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong The Fire Horse Journey with AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-ai Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

  8. Aug 24

    Ep 30: You Are the Light: How to Peel Back the Layers and Let Your God Self Shine

    Send us Fan Mail You are not just a human having a spiritual experience. You are a piece of God, carrying a light that has always been there, waiting to shine brighter. In this warm, raw, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah brings together some of the most powerful threads of this podcast into one luminous teaching about who you actually are, how much help you actually have, and what happens when you finally stop covering your light and let it pour through. She also tells you about the week her monkey mind went absolutely haywire. The low energy, the spiraling what-ifs, the stolen bike, the flat tires, and the neighbor who showed up at exactly the right moment with a security camera video. Because sometimes the universe uses a bicycle thief to remind you to raise your vibration. And that is not a metaphor. This is The Magic in the Middle at its most alive. In this episode you will discover: Why you are far more powerful than you have ever been led to believe, and what the observer effect of quantum physics, the DNA connection between a mother and child, and the light of God within you all have in commonHow to tell the difference between living at a low frequency and a high frequency, and the single conscious choice that shifts everythingThe spiritual team journal practice Sarah does every day, how to call them in, how to ask your questions, how to let the answers pour through without judgment or punctuation, and why the first few times might feel like nothing is happeningWhy your nervous system is not your enemy but your champion, and how to listen to the fear, the anger, and the doubt in your body as messages rather than obstaclesThe butterfly hug practice for meeting the hard feelings in your body with love instead of resistance, and why what you resist persistsWhy you only need to ask your spiritual team once, just like ordering an iced tea at a restaurant, and then trust it is already on its wayHow to notice the coincidences, the giant blue herons, the sea turtles, the neighbor at the door, and say thank you so that more keep flowing inWhy we are a we planet not a me planet, and how looking out for each other is part of the very work we came here to doSarah's mom reinvented herself at 80, learned green screen technology, and began sharing meditations around the world. Sarah's garden fairy conversation helped her find a home where every plant is thriving beyond belief. This is not theory. This is a woman living this practice out loud, falling down, getting back up, giggling, and inviting you to do the same. You came here as a creator. You came here as a light. And no matter how many layers have covered that light, it has never once gone out. Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com. The Fire Horse Journey without AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong The Fire Horse Journey with AI support: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-ai Support the show Thank you for spending this time in The Magic in the Middle. If this episode supported you, follow the show and continue exploring the space where science meets spirituality and life begins to flow with greater clarity, joy, and ease. New episodes are released every Monday. If someone you love would benefit from this conversation, share it with them. Every time you listen, follow, or share, you help this community grow and support more people reconnecting with the brilliance already within them. You are deeply loved.

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The Magic in the Middle is a weekly podcast where science meets spirituality—and life begins to flow with greater joy, clarity, and ease. Hosted by Sarah Adams Marr Dumas, this show explores the “middle” the space, the void, between effort and ease, logic and intuition, science and soul. It’s in this space that inner wisdom rises and real transformation happens. Each episode offers thoughtful reflections and grounded insights to help you reconnect with yourself, trust your inner guidance, and allow life to unfold more naturally. As you learn to meet yourself in the middle, decisions feel clearer, energy shifts, and life begins to feel lighter, richer, and more aligned. This podcast is for curious, open-hearted people who know there is more available in life;  more joy, more abundance, more ease and want to live a life that feels truly wonderful from the inside out. This is living The Magic in the Middle. New episodes drop every Monday.

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  • Creator
    Sarah Adams Marr Dumas
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    40
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    © 2026 The Magic in the Middle
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