Alight

Dr. Saskia von Diest teaches and facilitates nature communication. She holds a PhD in plant pathology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and has deep experience communicating with plants and animals. In 2025 her organization, Ecofluency, won a Gold Award for Innovation from the EcoLogic Awards. Learn more about Ecofluency at www.ecofluency.org   Hear us discuss: How we can open our heart...

After a health diagnosis prompted him to transition from working as a personal trainer and dietician to serving as a life coach and Conscious BioExistence Practitioner, Gonzalo Corts became an expert in decoding the body’s messages. As a coach and healer he specializes in helping clients discover the subconscious programs and ancestral root causes that limit their health, relationships, and financ...

Therapist, sound healer, and somatics expert Paula Scatoloni merges her conventional and holistic expertise to help students in her programs find integration and wholeness. She uses science-based sound protocols, along with shamanic, embodiment, and energy healing approaches, to support her students’ soul alignment and purposeful contributions to the world.    Hear Paula share why:  You want to le...

From working in corporate to photographing child factory labor in Asia before beginning a longtime career as a psychotherapist, then becoming a channel of Earth and Sun through her company Vast Earth, Rachel Pfotenhauer now develops channeled herbal facial products and perfumes through her new company, Sun Raya.  Hear Rachel discuss these aspects of her path of soulful authenticity thus far:  A ma...

How did a fashion designer trained in Italy and a lacrosse coach/urban composting activist become married farmers stewarding a historic farm in collaboration with land, sheep, and plants?  Tune in to hear Anne and David Darling’s extraordinary story of:  Serendipity, guidance, collaborations with nature and spirit, and life-changing decision points.  The amazing process of David being partially gi...

Hear clinical herbalist Rabia Jones discuss her understanding of why “people really want to be able to heal themselves, more than ever,” and how this connects to self-empowerment and sovereignty. Rabia shares about her training with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog and: ·         How growing and preparing your own herbal medicine can be easier and more empowering than people realize. ·         Why working wit...

Are you feeling guided to make a transition of some kind? Hear Shan Massucco discuss how. After two MBA degrees, a successful career in the beauty industry, a stroke in her 30s, and an eventual transition to working as a healer and shaman, Shan affirms: “Every human being has these abilities; it’s just, how much are you paying attention?” What happened when she said ‘yes’ to a new chapter in her l...

Hear Dr. Dalia Elimam, an Egyptian pediatrician turned energy medicine expert, speak about the wholeness she feels as she practices both conventional medicine and energy medicine.  Listen to Dr. Dalia describe: Her path of high-level conventional medicine training The surprising circumstance that led her to explore energy medicine Energy medicine from a physician's perspective Simple techniqu...

 How can your intuition transform your work & life?  Janet Doerr is a Medical Intuitive, Master Energy Healer, and Ascension Guide who uses her multidimensional gifts of perception, connection with the Company of Heaven, and range of healing techniques to provide transformative results for her clients.  Hear Janet describe:  Her transition from a corporate career to her work as a medical intui...

Welcome to the launch of the Alight Podcast! Our episodes bolster your optimism and clarity, offer you practical skills for soulful self-care and conscious creativity, and encourage you to know and be your authentic, soulful self.  We’re living in a time of great shift for people and Earth, so many of us feel the urge to contribute something distinctive, bright, and beautiful.  **New interview ser...

Hear an update on the podcast, why the podcast has been on pause, and what my new offering is. Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes. Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/  We're happy to hear your thoughts at  support@alightinstitute.com 

Whether Rachael Te Wano is in sessions with clients or leading travel to sacred lands, she shares tools of embodiment and self-activation. She helps her clients align with their highest potential, unravel the threads of their destiny, heal at the origin, and activate the inherent wisdom within their DNA. She loves to say, “a grounded women will change the world.” Find her work at www.rachaeltewano...

Can we create our reality? Hear renowned coach Abiola Abrams and Chara discuss:   Why it matters for us to take full responsibility for our lives and manifest consciously, not unconsciously. Why it’s important to realize that the mindset and manifestation approaches taught in recent decades actually are age-old and global and connect to neuroscience . The new discovery that some of the past centur...

Hear about the miracles, acts of kindness, and learning I've experienced recently with the passing of my dog...and about the wild animal babies showing me life's renewal. Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes. Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.instit...

After giving presentations on the dangers of climate change, Leah Rampy became convinced that something was missing from the conversations. With experience as a teacher, professor, corporate and nonprofit executive, and leadership consultant, she began a decades-long journey to understand what lies beneath our unwillingness to change our interactions with the natural world. Her growing commitment...

Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate ActionNetwork (WECAN). She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Gl...

Kate Neligan is an equine-partnered life and business coach, healer, and animal communicator who is devoted to the human-animal bond. Kate pairs her intuitive gifts with those of horses and goats to help people access their own inner power and life purpose. She works with both high-performing women and companies in developing mindful cultures through team-building and leadership retreats. Kate has...

Do you ever think about how all cultures have important myths and stories about transformation? Tune in to hear: Why transformation is core to who we are as humans Signs of transformation already occurring in our world Why transformation is something we have to choose Why individual transformation leads the way for collective transformation How to craft your own transformative story about what hum...

What does it mean to be part of the democracy of frequency? We all get to choose, in any moment, what frequency we are holding: rage or despair, joy or peace; fear or irritation, love or inspiration, discontent or gratitude. As we can learn from wise voices such as recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargess Mohammadi, or others such as Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, and Immaculee Ilibagiza, even when...

Whether you believe our world is healing or floundering toward disaster depends on which evidence you notice.  In this episode, hear me discuss the views of the climate experts I recently heard advocating for perspectives of hopelessness. This episode helps you consider whether you want to wilt or stand tall in the face of all that’s occurring in our world. Tune in to hear the two options, then ex...

In this episode, hear inspiring 'good news' stories from around the world and how courage is contagious in the best way. Hear whose courage has lit my path. Then join me in reflecting on whose courage influences you, and how you want your acts of courage and regeneration to spread beneficially to others as we care for one another and our planet. Kindly leave us a review so more people ca...

Paul Moss is co-founder and executive director of The Plant Initiative https://plantinitiative.org   a nonprofit organization started in 2020 that works collaboratively with others to advance respectful treatment of plants. He is a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Minnesota in the department of Geography, Environment and Society, where he is focusing on the relationship between people and pla...

In this sequel to Episode 44, Regenerative Collaboration in Science & Spirituality, I talk about how we can see the story of Regenerative Collaboration gaining strength in today’s world.  Tune in to: Consider 4 Principles of Regenerative Collaboration. Learn 3 ways to participate: there are many things you can do if you want to help humanity move more into Regenerative Collaboration. Hear how...

What does it mean to you to contribute to regeneration for people and planet? Are you contributing in the ways you want to? And are you thriving at the level you desire? How can you translate what our podcast speakers say into your own life so that you and Earth both benefit?   In this episode, I talk about the importance of letting go of the blocks that prevent us from making the contributions we...

Do you feel discouraged about our future on Earth but want to feel optimistic? Listen to hear good news about people around the world who are supporting one another and restoring Earth. Experience how your outlook changes when you're informed about signs of well-being and regeneration. Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new...