#151 - Cara Claymore, Strength Magician
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Cara Claymore is a strength athlete and strength & fitness coach as well as a filmmaker, artist, writer, speaker, and Tarotist. They are a polytheistic witch and syncretic magickal operator, who subscribes to a fully enspirited worldview, and strives to play and provoke on the frontier of the human imagination. Their animist lens centers relationality at the heart of their artistic, magickal and fitness work.
They have competed and placed at the national level in the sport of strong(wo)man, and is the creator of the landmark fitness class Mythic Strength, hosted by CrossFit South Brooklyn. They offer personal mentorship & coaching on a limited basis. Cara has written for BarBend and Refinery29, as well as developing their own film projects for their independent production company, Sunstrike Pictures.
You can follow Cara on Instagram and Threads @caraclaymore, and on their Substack, StrengthMagick.Substack.com.
On this episode, Cara discusses how to develop a magical fitness practice, the power of working with avatars and alter-egos, and why taking care of one’s vessel can increase enchantment in all aspects of life.
Pam also talks about infusing her workouts with witchcraft, and answers a listener question about how to cultivate a magical relationship with her body in middle-age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friend. I am often asked about how people can get even more witch wave and more magic in their lives overall. And I have the answer. You can join me over on the WitchWave Patreon. This is how you can hear from me and my other magical guests on a weekly basis via my WitchWave Plus bi-weekly bonus episodes. |
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| 0:47.6 | include magical merch and contests where you can win witchly prizes, as well as early heads up about my workshops before they sell out, |
| 0:57.7 | and opportunities to work with me one-on-one. |
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| 1:20.6 | It's a magnificent way to get more magic in your life and to support the show. |
| 1:26.2 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:32.0 | The world is filled with bewitching people, and you might be one too. Welcome to the podcast |
| 1:38.2 | where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 1:47.7 | I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. |
| 1:54.8 | Oh, in the sun you and I'll be afraid. |
| 2:38.5 | Oh, oh, the sunning shapes in the night. Oh, my mind. Hello, and Hello and welcome to the witch wave. And today we're getting physical and metaphysical as always. Yes, lovely ones, we are going to speak all about witchcraft and fitness. And this is a topic that's been requested from listeners periodically over the years, but I just hadn't found |
| 2:44.6 | quite the right guest to address it until now. Or maybe I just wasn't ready to have the conversation myself. I don't know. |
| 2:54.1 | But as so often happens with me on this show, this guest came to my attention just when I needed it most in my own life. |
| 3:04.5 | And I hope that this is coming to you right when you need it too. Because as you'll hear, |
| 3:11.4 | I've been on quite a journey with my own physical well-being. And it's been a journey with |
| 3:18.0 | ups and downs and starts and stops, but I'm currently in a period of re-engaging with my physical well-being and trying to get |
| 3:27.6 | healthier and stronger and trying to do so in a way that fully engages my magical self. |
| 3:35.6 | And my gods, am I happy that physical coach and strength magician Kara Claymore and I have crossed |
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