🎙️ Little IKIGAI Podcast
Little IKIGAI: A Cup of Storytelling is a gentle podcast exploring how small, honest moments can carry deep purpose.
Hosted by Mayumi, a naturopath rooted in natural healing, Tibetan medicine, and mind–body insight, each episode offers reflective storytelling to soothe, stir, and reconnect you with what matters.
Whether it’s a memory, a dog, a decision, or a kitchen dance, meaning often hides in the quietest places.
Pour yourself a cup of tea. Take a breath. Let’s listen for the whispers of Ikigai in everyday life.
Episode 3: In the Space Between Seasons: Turning 50, Ikigai, and the Quiet Art of Becoming
In the Space Between Seasons is a short, reflective episode on midlife, Ikigai, and the quiet art of becoming.
Recorded just after turning fifty, this gentle meditation explores what it feels like to stand between who we were and who we are becoming — without rushing, fixing, or forcing clarity.
Inspired by Japanese wisdom such as wabi-sabi, ichigo ichie, and Ikigai, this episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and honour the beauty of change.
A soft companion for walking, resting, or simply being.
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Episode 2: IKIGAI is Like Breath
“Ikigai is like breath. Always present, whether or not we notice.”
In this tender reflection, Mayumi explores what it means to live with Ikigai during the season of midlife and menopause. Drawing on the wisdom of Japanese psychiatrist Mieko Kamiya, a simple poem, and her own lived experience, she shares how meaning is not something we chase — but something hidden in the everyday rhythm of life.
From grief and change to rediscovering joy, this story invites you to see menopause not as an ending, but as a quiet beginning. A chance to breathe, to soften, and to notice the small, ordinary moments that remind us life is still full of purpose.
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Episode 1: Sachi – A Story of Joy, Grief, and Ikigai
In this opening episode, I share a deeply personal story about a black puppy named Sachi, a memory that still lives in my body, and the quiet thread of meaning that connects joy and grief.
It’s not a story about achievement or doing more, it’s about Ikigai in its purest form: a reason to live, found in something small, tender, and real.
If you’ve ever carried something unspoken… or longed to feel quietly alive again, this story is for you.