Bodyway Intuition Podcast

Thank you for listening to Season One of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast! Throughout all 44 episodes, I've had the honor of sharing meaningful conversations with incredible guests whose experiences have offered new perspectives on intuition, self-awareness, and what is possible for your own intuitive power. I'm grateful to everyone who has listened and been part of this first season. The Bodyway Int...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Simone Kelly, who is a 5x Amazon Best Selling Author, media personality, and entrepreneur who has been building businesses since 1996. As founder of Own Your Power Communications, Own Your Power University, and the longtime host of the Own Your Power Lifestyle Show, she works as an Intuitive Life Coach, Reiki Master Teacher,...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Alishia McCullough, Founder of BlackandEmbodied Counseling, Somatic Healer, Author, and Culture Shifter about embodiment, integration, safety in the body, and creating lives our bodies no longer have to survive. Our bodies carry our lived experiences, histories, adaptations, and ways of knowing.  Their conversation moves thro...

Listening can be an act of care for another person and a way of developing a deeper relationship with ourselves.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Chan, founder of Listening Lotus, about the many ways we listen, the relationship between listening and presence, and what becomes available when we pay attention to ourselves before, during, and after an experien...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with acupuncturist, wellness curator, model, and Root & Essence Acupuncture founder Walda Laurenceau about the relationship between spirituality, intuition, the body, and the life she has created. Walda shares how growing up in Haitian culture shaped her understanding of dreams and spiritual communication, how experience taugh...

Recognizing the deaths and rebirths happening throughout your life changes how you experience them. In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Asha Nebt-Het Dawn, who shares how her own repeated experiences of transformation led her to become a death doula and transformation guide for women navigating what she calls the sacred in between death and rebirth. After struggling with depress...

The experiences that are the most difficult to live through can also guide us to great wisdom.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Asha Frost, Anishinaabe Kwe On Anishinabewaki, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat + Haudenosaunee Land. Asha is an Indigenous healer, author, mentor, and speaker who shares how illness became a gateway to her spiritual journey. As a child, Asha was called a seer...

What happens when you deny yourself the ability to see spirits, but your ability to sense them remains?  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Kesaine, a New York-based somatic practitioner, intuitive astrologer, Reiki Master Teacher, and professional art model trained in integrative breathwork, shares how a spiritual sensitivity that began in early childhood evolved into a life guided...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Oneika Mays, a meditation teacher, author, and former Mindfulness Coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, as she shares the experiences that shaped her relationship with mindfulness, the body, intuition, spirituality, and love. For more than a decade, Oneika brought trauma-informed yoga and meditation into Rikers, eventually working one-...

What happens when spiritual practice moves beyond individual healing and into the healing of a community? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Alicia Boyd, community and political activist, educator, writer, Reiki Master, and founder of The Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), shares how more than 25 years of spiritual practice ultimately became inseparable from her work as an acti...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Joél Simone, affectionately known as The Grave Woman. She is a sacred grief care practitioner, licensed funeral director and embalmer, and an award-winning educator and speaker who brings more than a decade of expertise to end-of-life, death, and grief care. She is the founder of The Multicultural Death & Grief Care Academy, where she help...

Our sense of smell constantly provides us with information, but how much attention are we actually paying to it? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Dr. Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist and leading expert on the psychological science of smell, explores how scent influences memory, emotion, attraction, food, safety, and the way we perceive the world around us. A faculty member at Brown U...

Understanding yourself begins with understanding the way your brain communicates.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Amy Leigh Mercree, an internationally acclaimed medical intuitive, bestselling author, creator of Atomic Healing®, and holistic health expert, shares how she came to understand herself. Blending spirituality and science, Amy helps people identify the root causes of i...

What if creativity, mindfulness, and intuition are all different ways of paying attention? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey), a musician, author, meditation teacher, and host of the Lyrical Dharma podcast, shares how contemplative practices and hip-hop have shaped his life and work. Known as a prominent voice on the Balance meditation app, he blends med...

What if healing begins when you realize you can choose your relationship with pain? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni is joined by Bamzi, host of The Art of Being podcast. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Bamzi shares how years of pain, disconnection, and healing transformed the way she understands consciousness, embodiment, and what it means to live from the inside out. Together, we...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Maya Maat, a womb wellness practitioner, author, and founder of The Joyous Womb, which provides postpartum support for Black birthing people and somatic healing for survivors of sexual trauma. Drawing from her background in Reiki, yoga therapy, meditation, breathwork, and postpartum doula care, Maya shares how growing up in a spiritually groun...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Sarah Lynn Thomas shares the unexpected path that led her from a successful career in finance and Bitcoin trading to co-leading Behold Retreats in Costa Rica. Along the way, she began questioning whether the life she had built was truly aligned with who she was, leading her to explore intuition, Dharma, and the deeper relationship between healing a...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, we explore a question many people quietly struggle with: What do you do when negative influence feels stronger than positive influence? Jiulio Consiglio is a spiritual author and teacher based in Southern Ontario, Canada. He shares the personal experiences that transformed the way he understands himself and the world around him. After years of livi...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tonya Schroka, a wife, mother of five, lifelong space-holder, Certified Reiki Master, and Certified Master Intuitive. After years of personal healing and spiritual awakening, Tonya now supports highly sensitive individuals as they navigate transformation, life transitions, and soul remembering. She shares painful experiences that shaped her pa...

On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Dr. Tequilla Hill, a licensed psychotherapist, mindful wellness leader, educator, and healer whose work bridges mental health, somatic healing, expressive arts, and spiritual wisdom. With over 20 years of experience, she weaves together systemic and somatic therapeutic approaches, expressive arts, and wellbeing practices to nurture whole-perso...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tamela Julia Gordon, author of Hood Wellness , a memoir that blends personal storytelling, communal care, spirituality, wellness practices, and collective healing. She is also a freelance writer, editor, tarot reader, and communal care advocate. Introduced to Santería through her father's Cuban lineage, Tamela was immersed in spiritual practic...

Paul Gerard is a chef with a lifetime of experience cooking for discerning clients across New York, in Los Angeles, and internationally. A native of South Brooklyn, Chef Paul Gerard honed his craft in the intense, fast-paced kitchens of 1980s New York, where he began cooking at just 13 years old. His culinary journey led him to New Orleans, where he spent over a decade in some of the city’s most c...

Karen Allen is an international keynote speaker, growth mindset coach, and author with nearly a decade of experience empowering leaders and teams. Specializing in growth mindset, mindfulness, and human leadership skills, Karen uses her Stop & Shift methodology to drive positive change. She has collaborated with organizations such as Genentech, Google, and Thomson Reuters to enhance leadership...

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and director, racial equity consultant and educator, and intuitive and shamanic healer. Her work centers on healing individual and collective trauma, returning to wholeness, and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Drawing on more than two decades as a clinical social worker, Michelle has led transformative work dismantlin...

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet New Orleans native, author, and eighth- generation witch, Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani. The conversation explores West African spirituality through Yoruba traditions, the Orishas, and the shared representation of deities across cultures. Mawiyah shares her connection to the Goddess Oya, who represents the wind, and reflects on how that relation...