About the Podcast
The Inward Sea is a storytelling podcast that explores mythology and folklore from cultures around the world as living sources of insight for modern life. Rather than treating myths as distant or purely academic artifacts, the show approaches them as symbolic maps—stories shaped by generations of human experience that still speak to creativity, identity, struggle, and transformation. Episodes often focus on a single mythic image, character, or story arc and unfold it over multiple episodes. This slow, attentive approach allows recurring themes, archetypes, and symbolic relationships to emerge organically, revealing how ancient patterns echo across cultures and continue to shape our inner and outer lives today. Each episode follows a three-part structure. First, a storytelling segment, where the myth or folktale is retold in an accessible, evocative way, honoring its oral roots. Next, an amplification segment, drawing on comparative mythology, psychology, and symbolic thinking to explore the relationships between the archetypes, images, and tensions present in the story. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, this section opens a space for curiosity, ambiguity, and personal meaning. Finally, a reflection segment invites listeners to engage directly with the material through journaling prompts or reflective questions adapted from workshops, courses, and labyrinth-based practices developed by the host. While some story cycles may focus on well-known traditions—such as Greek mythology—the scope of the podcast is global, drawing from folktales and mythic traditions across cultures. The emphasis is not on mastery or expertise, but on lived engagement: how stories work on us, challenge us, and help us orient ourselves during periods of change. The Inward Sea is for listeners who enjoy storytelling, symbolic exploration, and reflective practices, and who are interested in using myth as a practical tool for creativity, self-understanding, and meaning-making in contemporary life.
About the Host
Dimitri
I’m a composer, artist, and educator with a long-standing interest in mythology, folklore, and storytelling as living practices rather than abstract ideas. For many years, alongside my work in education, I’ve been teaching extra-curricular courses that invite students to engage with myth as something experiential—stories that help us think, reflect, and orient ourselves during periods of change. I’m also a Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, and much of my work has been shaped by embodied and reflective practices that combine story, symbol, movement, and quiet attention. Through workshops, courses, and labyrinth walks, I’ve seen how mythic images and archetypal patterns can open meaningful conversations about creativity, identity, and becoming, without needing to force interpretation or arrive at fixed answers. Living abroad in South Korea has deepened this work in unexpected ways. Being immersed in another culture—and gradually reconnecting with my own Greek heritage—has reinforced my sense that myths are not relics of the past, but ongoing dialogues between cultures, generations, and inner lives. I’m currently relearning Greek, often imperfectly, and allowing those rough edges and moments of humor to remain part of the process. I’m not a therapist, but I believe stories can act as a kind of medicine for the soul. They remind us that we belong not only to the demands of modern productivity, but to a long human chorus of voices that have used story to make meaning, navigate uncertainty, and remember what it means to be alive.
