The Path of IX - Walking With our Shadow

Are you moving through each day, living only to check the boxes? Are you letting the algorithms of society determine who you are supposed to be and what you are supposed to do? We come from all different ways of being. Today's Circle is not meant to erase who you are, but seeks to welcome all the parts of your story, all the parts of you. Join me as we check in with ourselves. Step outside the alg...

Like a butterfly, we all transform. We all have times of metamorphosis and change. Are you working against that? Are you embracing the changes? Can you look back and see how you have grown? Today, as I welcome you into Circle, we will consider the process of transformation. We will make space for our mind, body, and essence to connect and communicate. And we will honor the opportunity that time ho...

Is your energy leaking out? Do you experience burn out, exhaustion, or frustration with others? When this happens we assume it's outside forces affecting us or people taking advantage of us, but let us consider an alternative. Maybe your energy is leaking as a result of you not fully knowing yourself. Today, as we enter into Circle, we will examine all parts of ourselves: our mind, our body, our e...

If no man is an island, where does that leave us when we are in isolation? How can we stay connected to the world around us when we are alone? And how can we savor nature's kingdoms, not just when supplies run short and when excess is no longer available, but at all times? Today, as I welcome you into Circle, we will consider the familiar, centuries old text from John Donne, and explore the meanin...

What does it mean to witness? Is it simply observing? Is it deepy knowing? And how can we witness ourselves? How can we know ourselves so that we can accept and be accountable to who we are? Can this knowledge affect how we see other beings? Today, I welcome you into Circle and invite you into this place of self love. We will explore what it means to see ourselves, to know ourselves, and what cons...

What does it mean to pursue happiness? Do you find yourself seeking it out, hunting it down, only to find it momentarily and then begin the search again? It is easy to get caught in this cycle, but there is another way. Today, as I welcome you into Circle, we will consider this pursuit, what happiness means to you, and we will examine the collective ache of happiness that our culture is experienci...

What does gender mean to you and how has that been influenced by the culture you live, work, and play in? How can we approach conversations about gender with openness and grace for ourselves and others? Today, I welcome my wife, Rose, into Circle. Rose joins me for a conversation around the emerging topic of gender. What is masculinity and femininity? What do those mean within us and how we see an...

What is pleasure and how can we connect to it within ourselves? How can the plant kingdom help us on our path to healing and circleness? Today, I welcome Ursula Goulet, a soul midwife, plant witch, and somatic sexual empowerment coach. Join us as we dive into Ursula's creation story, how her curiosity as a child has led her on this path of discovery, how she uses plants to heal, and why her kinshi...

How can we begin to cultivate a deeper relationship with the natural world? How can we connect with our ancestors and live in circleness with them? In today's episode I'm honored to be joined by Lizz Huerta. Lizz is a storyteller, a decorated writer, and the author of The Lost Dreamer .  Listen in as we discuss the creative process she follows, where in the body our stories are held, the importanc...

Does the invitation to lay down your wisdom stir up agitation or relief? Can you leave all that you know outside the circle? What is there to gain when we do not know? In today's episode, I invite you to step into being, into the unknown, and consider what you can receive when you lay down your wisdom. Allow yourself to receive the gift of being wrong, making mistakes, starting again, reimagining,...

Where can we begin on our journey of knowing ourselves and living in circleness? How can we embody the wisdom that we hold deep within us? Can we let go of knowing and focus more on feeling? In today's episode, my guest, Nicole Concepcion , offers guidance on where to start your journey and what to connect to along the way. Nicole is an artist, a curandera, a mother, and a cacao facilitator. She i...

How can we connect the dots of our past with those of our present and what is to come in our future? How can we live in circleness rather than being stuck in the mindset that our lives must be linear? In today's episode, I will guide you in considering your breath, your life, your whole being in circleness. The moments in your life are all connected. Can you see it? Do you feel it? By seeing and h...

How can we accept ourselves wholly and honestly, knowing our missteps, our falls, are part of our story? How can we love ourselves even if others may not? Can you walk your path with acceptance and without judgment? Can you weave together what you know with what you do not know? In today's episode I will guide you on this journey to radical self love and acceptance as we explore what to let go of...

How do you meet life, with all its ebbs and flows? Are you constantly striving to master new things, but full of stress and feeling broken by the challenges that inevitably come your way?  What if you approached life with a different lens instead? One of wisdom, of learning, and of wonder, where you could develop a good root system? How then would you be affected by the winds of life?    In today'...

Many people are fascinated by their ancestry. This concept of ancestry is often defined by bloodlines and can be an opportunity to heal and connect with those that came before us. Many times, people want ancestry because they want to feel like they belong. But what if there was a less human centric way to approach our ancestry? A way to connect beyond the close familial stories that we do or do no...

As we change, grow and evolve, as we walk our medicine path we often encounter the waters of our trauma and grief. Some of these wounds run deep and need more time to heal but we sometimes cannot see the layers necessary for healing. Sometimes we speak from what we think is a fixed wound but what is underneath is still building up. The lesson here is that life is truly a journey of stages and ther...

The journey to healing can be a long one and for those called onto The Medicine Path, those asked to weave their knowledge and experiences to help others, it can be easy to prioritize filling other's cups before your own. Today's guest shows us that the healing journey is one that never ends, one that asks to remain students of life and become our own medicine first. In today's episode, I welcome...

We exist in a constant state of global unrest whether we are impacted by it directly or indirectly. While we cannot control the war outside of us we can actively and diligently create peace inside of us. But first, we must ask ourselves what peace looks like for us. What does it feel,taste and smell like to our mind,body and essence? Can we allow conflict between these parts and surrender to their...

There is this expectation that things should happen within a certain amount of time and that could be because you were taught that urgency was really about worth and value. Join me as we create context around what patience is for you, while diving into stories that come up when you hear the word patience paired with capacity and a sense of urgency. In today's episode, I invite this special topic t...

As we continue to encounter the stories that follow us into the circle, it is important to stay open, flexible and full of curiosity. But, the need to be right often stops us from being curious and ultimately from being in relationship. Today's plática seeks to call us inward and invites us to ask ourselves where we are with righteousness and why we stand so strongly within it. In this episode I w...

What is your story when it comes to success and perfectionism? Who informed this definition? How does this energy feel? Does it allow you to live in circleness or is it linear? This is a platica that I have had many times over my life with many people! Join me for today's conversation, where we stay curious about the stories we have woven about destiny, the possibility of journeying inwards and wh...

Gratitude practices have become very popular, but I've noticed that they are missing something very important. In today's episode, I'm sharing with you something that has been stirring with me, inside of me, and around me lately on this topic. Join me in this plática as I explore greed and not enoughness, gratitude and marvel, and weave it all together to help you really be able to take in a momen...

In each of our spiritual journeys, there comes a time when we experience this little thing called coming out of the spiritual closet. But how does it manifest in our lives? Today's guest is here to share her experience! In today's episode, I invite not just this special topic to the circle but also an amazing human being. I am joined by Rose of Live bi Design, an amazing, inspirational leader, tea...

If you've been struggling with the anxieties, stresses, and hurts that living this life can bring up and wondering how to become whole, this episode is for you! I'm talking about circle and the idea of "circleness," what it teaches us, and how it can help us to become whole.   I'm exploring: The 3 parts of cohesiveness and wholeness Compartmentalization vs circle A word replacement you can use in...

We all have creation stories as human beings, as individuals, and as societies. What's yours? And why is it so important? Join me in this pilot episode of The Path of Ix for a little plática , so that you can get to know me and my own creation story. Let's explore what it means to walk with our shadow and why taking the time to learn how to remember is so important in your path to radical self lov...