The Wild Temple

Explore the incredible potential of nature and our inner strength to foster healing and connection to the divine. In this episode of the Wild Temple podcast Brooke dives deeply into the world of holistic healing and wellness with Dr. Carrie Demers. Lsiten in as the two explore the potent synergy between traditional medicine, yoga, and herbal wisdom. Their conversation spans the benefits of integra...

What is the commonality between eclipses, Mercury retrogrades, and tantra in teaching individuals how to evolve and grow? This episode explores what it means to align with nature, find steadiness amidst changes, practice sacred technologies like Dharmic, Ayurvedic, and tantric approaches, and the importance of cleansing and releasing old habits to lead a purposeful life with greater impact. Joinin...

Let this episode nourish YOU during this Eclipse season.. Discover the profound nourishment Tantra offers the world in this episode of the Wild Temple Podcast, featuring Brooke Sullivan's interview on the radio show Women Thriving Unapologetically. Delve into the depths of Tantra's wisdom as Brooke explores how it feeds analytical minds, mystic souls, and nature enthusiasts alike, offeri...

In this episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, Brooke speaks with Sandy Anderson, a senior faculty member at the Himalayan Institute, about the Tantric worldview and its spiritual and physical benefits. They delve into the relationship between mind, body, and soul, discussing how a person's dharma, or purpose, can manifest through natural inclinations and skills combined with the circumstances i...

In this special episode of The Wild Temple, Brooke welcomes her husband, Cactus, for a candid and intimate conversation about trust, poisonous paradigms, and universal love. Cactus shares insights from his own journey with trust issues rooted in spirituality and together, they navigate profound topics such as dualistic thinking, toxic guru culture, the power of unconditional love, and the evolutio...

In this episode, Brooke shares an ancient myth from the Brahmanda Purana, about the Empress of Desire (Lalitha Tripura Sundari.)  Working with the translation written by Linda Johnsen in her book The Living Goddess, Brooke reveals insights on the path of kundalini awakening and the practices of Tantra through the lens of pleasure and desire. She also talks about the spirit of Saffron and as a powe...

A Living Dharma Window: Equine Power + Ethical Space holding with Jamila Jackson This episode is a window into power, path and purpose. In this episode, Brooke discusses with her guest, Jamila Jackson, how to hold space ethically (for one's self and others), while healing and being in a position of power. We discuss the potency of merging sacred technologies with Equine therapy and how this r...

This episode is about the power of sound and our cultural inheritance.  In it, Brooke talks about certain traditional ways sound has been used for healing as well as the possibility that you have this magical inheritance in your bloodline. Due to suppression, severance and cultural amnesia, this knowledge has largely been lost and as a result, we have lost touch with this power. In the mystical sc...

Brooke Sullivan of the Wild Temple with guest Dr. Katy Jane, Vedic Astrologer + Yogi Are you interested in understanding how learning about the stars can lead you to the Goddess?  Or how being able to read a chart can help you access your true nature and sage-like wisdom?  What about how understanding parts of you that do not change can actually be a superpower? This episode is a very Tantric disc...

Episode Begins Tantra and Home Life. 11:46 Envisioning a group of concentric circles: Home, Community and World in the worldview of a Tantric practitioner. Seeing the fluidity of support, nurturance, balance and stability that Tantra supports so a woman can live a fulfilled life in each of these spheres while meeting dharma and burning karma. The challenges that can be supported by a Tantric pract...

Was Santa and Alchemist? Quick recap Brooke interviews Michael Van Sciver, Ayurvedic Physician, Clinical Herbalist, Alchemist + guest faculty for The Wild Temple School for this delicious insight into the seasons and holiday spirit. This is our second interview with Michael (the first episode was in our first season: Myths, Battles + Awe: A Cultural Incoculation of the Seasons, Episode 2) .  Micha...

Apologies for the audio issues in the beginning..they smooth out, we promise, and we have figured out the issue for our next session.   This is a talk with Bonne Gene Wallace on the applications + lifestyle practices of Tantra Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda,  Herbalism,  Functional Medicine and a window into Free Diving.  Bonnie is a Holistic Gut + Mental Health Specialist, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Fun...

Happy Dhanteras, and Diwali! In this episode, I talk about Dharma from a few different angles, mentioning the books below (the first, written by my husband for Audible in 2020) and the second written by Kripalu's Scholar Emeritus, Stephen Cope. I also mention the ancient teaching from the Vedas called Purashchartas , or The 4 Desires of the Soul. Word Is Born by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (Cactus...

In this episode, Brooke interviews two seasoned tantric practitioners, Jeanne Heileman and Rene Quenell, about Navaratri, Tantra and the Goddess. Some of the topics we cover are: Navaratri practice and its significance Overcoming hardships through spiritual practices Feminine energy and spiritual practices during Navaratri Yoga, spirituality, and personal growth Self-mastery and the divine feminin...

Pitru Paksha (or Pitri Paksha)  The Pitris are our ancestors, and so  Pitru Pashka means “Fortnight of the Ancestors”.  This window of time is devoted to a ritual tending to or honoring of the ancestors known as Tarpana, which means to gratify or satiate . The practice varies, but in Vedic culture, largely follows these guidelines: Honoring the ancestors on the New Moon of each month, or this two...

This is a practice for grounding into the earth and connecting into the space (and spaciousness) of the Ancestors.  This is a complementary, bonus episode to go along with the previous episode: Pitru Paksha: Dark Moon Fortnight For Ancestral Healing + Practice 

dharma, revolution, supports, revolutionary act, revolutionizing, soul mission, alignment, reductionist, world, dharmic, bhagavad gita, hungry ghosts, impartial, stand, sole purpose, patriarchy, accomplishing, capitalism This is our new season our new incarnation, focusing now on the dharmic revolution and the sacred technologies of tantric alchemy, Ayurveda, yoga and herbal wisdom to help step yo...

SUMMARY KEYWORDS feel, alchemy, Matangi, belonging, wound, stories, honoring, compost, place, dharmic, work, love, part, people, temple, wild, beautiful, nature, create, called, find, yantra This is the last episode of the Mythic Apotheca season! Next episode will begin our Second Season, the Dharmic Revolution! Subscribe to stay tuned, and share with a friend or colleague! 01:48 In today's e...

✨ Today we air from Skaneateles, “skinny atlas,” NY in a small room at the bottom floor of a castle. Technically this room is a wine cellar but it also has this incredible magical quality to it… The ceiling is a muted blood color with metallic gold flower prints that bring to mind elegance but also ancient bloodlines and the arched door of this cool stone room is a set of iron bars complete with...

In this episode Brooke shares about: Guru Purnima: This Full Moon time of honoring the "teacher" or "sage" within and around us Myth of the Sages + The Wishfullfilling Tree  A Creation Story Birth of Sri Sukta (from the Rg Veda) Birth of MUD Salvia Officinalis A paradox of a plant Medicinal Uses Lore Spiritual Uses How viruses, plants, Nature and people are Teachers  Our goal i...

In this episode Brooke shares: The importance of Rhythm and connecting to the Moon Dark Moon Babies A moon song The Nakshatras: "Faces of the Moon" or archetypal "Mansions" of the movement of the moon in the night sky, as insights into the flow of Nature's Prana + Mental/Emotional states The Myth of Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes Rohini: The most beautiful wife of the moon G...

Flower Essence Therapy has been gaining popularity as an emotional therapy. Dr. Bach, the forefather of flower essence therapy, was a leading edge activist for flower therapy as emotional therapy. On our Ireland retreat in 2019, I was inspired by my friend and flower essence colleague who shared the history and teachings of Dr. Bach. One quote, in particular, resonated with me: "Our emotional...

The Wild Temple Mythic Apotheca with Brooke Shannon Sullivan In this webinar, we dive into the importance of a home practice, how tantra yoga can help us overcome the challenges of our time, and how teacher trainings, retreats, and yoga immersions that offer a DEEP dive are better than the piecemeal approach to learning that western culture often brings. It's so important for us to tell our s...

In this episode, Avril Bowens, Midwife and founder of The Midwife Method, and I talk  power . We go into what empowered birth looks and feels like, the power of Nature, the power of Kundalini, rites of passage, and how civilization will benefit when the narrative and scenery of maternity care changes. We must move from the old patriarchal models of disempowerment (perpetuated behind closed doors a...

In this episode, Brooke interviews Michael Van Sciver, an Herbal Clinician, Ayurvedic Physician and modern-day Alchemist, on cultural myths and cleansing practices during the junctures of the seasons. They talk battles, astronomical events (that may make one vomit), teachings of specific myths (Tantric, Celtic, Jewish + Buddhist traditions) and plants. Best of all, listeners will receive insights...