Wisdom Rising

Send Us a Message! When you keep finding yourself in the same emotional loop, how do you begin to see a different possibility? We’re joined by Alexandra Omania, a soul development coach and mentor, for an honest conversation on perception, belief systems, shadow work, and remembering who you are beneath the roles and stories you’ve carried. “You also have to make space for play and curiosity and t...

Send Us a Message! If you’ve ever felt like your sensitivity is both your superpower and the reason you burn out, this conversation lands with clarity. We sit down with Erin Ryan, a certified Reiki master teacher, licensed acupuncturist, and founder of Five Element Dragonfire Reiki, to talk about late-diagnosed ADHD and autism and what changes when you finally understand your neurotype. The throug...

Send Us a Message! Tantra gets talked about like it’s a secret technique, but what happens when you bring it into the hard parts of real life? We’re joined by Patrick Chapman, a certified SkyDancing Tantra presenter with a background in executive coaching, law, and Kundalini Yoga, for a grounded conversation on self-awareness, deconditioning, and learning to live inside your body instead of inside...

Send Us a Message! What actually happens in the bedroom when you bring Tantra into your relationship? We decided to talk about it. In this episode of Wisdom Rising , Christine Renee sits down with her partner, Jim Macdonald, for a very real conversation about sacred sexuality—not as an idea or a spiritual concept, but as something they are actually living and exploring together. We talk about the...

Send Us a Message! Badassery isn’t a vibe. It’s a practiced relationship with your own energy, your body, and your boundaries. We get real about what it looks like to move from years of people pleasing, second-guessing, and overgiving into a grounded “unfuckwithable” steadiness that still stays heart-open and human. In this episode we'll explore: 🌕 Why so many of us feel disconnected from wh...

Send Us a Message! The internet is louder than ever, and a lot of “experts” look convincing right up until you pay them. I sit down with my long-time business coach, Kimra Luna, creator of Be True Brand You, to talk about what actually holds up over time: a clear message, real results, and relationships you can feel. We go back to her early days of Googling how to start a blog, learning from podca...

Send Us a Message! Christine Renee and Jim Macdonald share a grounded, beginner-friendly approach to sacred tantra that puts presence first, not technique, performance, or perfection. We talk about tantra as an experiential path of expanding aliveness by combining conscious awareness with energy flow, then moving that energy through three keys you can practice anytime: breath, sound, and movement....

Send Us a Message! Your body is not being dramatic. It is being honest. Christine Renee sits down with Wilder Akasha, a somatic coach and embodied leadership guide, to talk about what happens when trauma, stress, and long-held survival strategies get stored in the soma and start running the show. Drawing from more than three decades across education, leadership, somatics, mindfulness, energy work,...

Send Us a Message! A plant can be medicine, but it can also be a relationship, and that changes everything. We’re joined by Angela Devani, a Montana-based transformation guide and spiritual herbalist, to talk about what happens when you stop treating nature like a resource and start treating it like a conversation. From herbal walks to hands-on apothecary skills, we explore how plant allies, eleme...

Send Us a Message! Your body already knows how to come home, but most of us were taught to live in our heads. We sit down with Peter A. Petersen, a longtime Qigong practitioner and instructor (24 years), meditation teacher, and dance facilitator, to get practical about what embodiment actually is and how to build it through movement, breath, music, and real-time choice. Peter tells the story of hi...

Send Us a Message! Something changes when women stop performing and start telling the truth in a room that can hold it. We’re back for a “Whispers of Wisdom” catch-up to share what our summer retreats taught us about real community, real healing, and the kind of sacred space that actually follows you home. If you’ve been craving deeper connection, women’s circle energy, or a retreat that feels gro...

Send Us a Message! Plant medicine is everywhere right now and so is the quiet confusion that follows it: Was that healing, or was it just a peak experience I’m chasing again? We sit down with clinical hypnotherapist Derek Ivey to talk honestly about addiction, recovery, and why “spiritual” substance use still carries real risks when the integration piece is missing. Derek shares his own journey th...

Send Us a Message! A live summer solstice gathering turns into a rapid-fire tour of the Bozeman, Montana holistic wellness scene. We’re at SpiritFest with quick, honest mini interviews that let you feel the heart of a local spiritual community: people showing up to heal, learn, and connect with practitioners who do more than a one-time session. We start with Lauren, the host behind Tree of Life Sp...

Send Us a Message! A middle school classroom can feel like a storm of emotions, hormones, and stories and that’s before we even get to the hard parts of history. Our guest, public school educator and Soul Rising graduate Lola Reddy, shares the real behind-the-scenes work that helps her stay steady: daily Reiki, clear energetic boundaries, and the kind of deep healing that changes how you respond w...

Send Us a Message! Some spiritual ideas sound beautiful until life breaks you open, then you need something that actually helps you live. Shantel Ochoa shares a recent live webinar on Soul Contracts and Archetypes, and she starts where many of us start: grief, unanswered questions, and the deep need to understand why certain losses and patterns shape us so intensely. From that raw place, we explor...

Send Us a Message! The most disorienting seasons of life often aren’t the endings or the beginnings. They’re the in between. That’s where liminal space lives, and it’s where so many of us either break open into a truer life or try to force ourselves back into the old one. In this episode, we'll explore: • defining liminal spaces as the in between where time slows and growth accelerates • usin...

Send Us a Message! A single trigger can make you feel like you’ve lost all your progress, and then you’re left wondering why the same old story keeps replaying. We’ve learned that the fastest way out isn’t more self-judgment. It’s clearer inner language. When you can name the part of you that’s running the moment, you can stop blending with it and start choosing from a steadier place. In this epis...

Send Us a Message! Your energy field isn’t just “vibes” floating around you. It’s a living system that reflects your boundaries, your self-worth, and the places where you’ve learned to contract for safety. We walk through a grounded, usable way to understand chakras as interlocking energy centers and why one stuck “gear” can ripple into the rest of your life, from survival stress and people pleasi...

Send Us a Message! Sex, spirituality, and “psychic protection” usually get filed into separate boxes. Here at Moon Rising, we don’t. Christine Renee sits down with student and shamanic Reiki practitioner Stacy Saucedo to trace a real learning path: how a simple question (“Why Chakras?”) turns into a deeper relationship with energy, the body, and the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to hide. In...

Send Us a Message! Coming out later in life can feel like the moment everything finally makes sense, until you realize freedom also brings you face-to-face with the pain you’ve been carrying for decades. I’m joined by Peter Kahn, a Reiki practitioner, reclaiming witch, and Soul Rising graduate, for a candid conversation about growing up bullied, hiding a trans identity for survival, and what it’s...

Send Us a Message! You can feel it when a spiritual gathering is more than a marketplace. Over Spring Equinox, we Tree Of Life SpiritFest in Bozeman, Montana, and we’re bringing you the heart of what made the day special: real community, real conversation, and practical tools that land in the body, not just the mind. After a quick recap of the event, we shift into a live panel with a beautifully d...

Send Us a Message! Suffering can be loud, but it’s often just repetitive, a thought you can’t stop replaying or a body response that keeps reacting like the past is still happening. We sit down and get honest about how we “subscribe” to our own suffering through identity, comparison, and nervous system loops, and what it actually takes to step out of that pattern with radical responsibility. If yo...

Send Us a Message! You don’t need a perfect script to lead powerful ceremony. You need a clear intention, a well-held container, and the skills to guide people through real emotion without leaving them raw or ungrounded. We share a webinar replay that opens the door to what we teach inside our six-week intensive training, The Art of Creating Ceremony, and we make it practical for anyone called to...

Send Us a Message! Something is shifting: we’re noticing a real drive toward in-person ceremony where your senses come online and your nervous system can finally soften into connection. From cacao ceremony to new moon circles to sound baths with drumming and Reiki, we talk about what makes a sacred container feel grounded, intentional, and actually transformative. In this episode, we explore: • Th...

Send Us a Message! Ready to turn a circle into a true ceremony? We open the door to what makes a space feel sacred by walking through the nuts and bolts that most people skip. From the first breath to the final closing, we share how intention, clear roles, and grounded presence transform a gathering into a container where people can release, receive, and remember who they are. In this episode, we’...