Wisdom Rising

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’...

Send Us a Message! You can ask Spirit for help and actually get an answer. Not as a vague sign you second-guess for weeks, but as a felt experience that brings clarity, comfort, and a next step you can act on. We’ll explore: Soul Rising and learning to journey independently into the shamanic realm Asking Spirit for help and how support shows up through collaboration The need for sacred containers...

Send Us a Message! If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re “making it up” during a meditative visualization, this guided shamanic journey will change how you relate to your imagination. We’re Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa, and we’re opening the door to the lower world, a grounded shamanic realm of nature, instinct, and deep support where power animals and spirit allies live. Along the way, we e...

Send Us a Message! We share a grounded path into shamanic journeying, explore the lower world, and show how power animals and symbols offer practical guidance. We reflect on surrender, interpretation, and why story can help Western minds release patterns and choose steadier action. In this episode, we’ll explore: 🌕 Grounding breath and roots to settle scattered energy  🌖 What shamanic journeying...

Send Us a Message! Feeling the wind pick up right as you exhale? Waking at 2 a.m. with vivid images and next steps? We lean into those moments and show how shamanism turns them into reliable guidance for everyday life . From blessing water to drumming into trance, we walk through simple, repeatable practices that calm the mind, restore energy, and help you act with clarity. In this episode you’ll...

Send Us a Message! Grief can freeze a life—or forge it. We open a raw, grounded conversation about death, loss, and the quiet rebirth that follows, guided by Shantel’s story of losing her 16‑year‑old son and the years of healing that turned pain into purpose. Together we explore what conscious grieving looks like in real time: feeling everything without drowning, setting gentle containers for emot...

Send Us a Message! What actually makes a group feel safe enough to transform? We open with a vulnerable debrief from a tantric couples retreat—where the intention was beautiful but the container felt thin—and use it to map the anatomy of true space holding. From feeling “muted” to identifying the missing check-ins, we explore how safety, consent, and integration are built through small, deliberate...

Send Us a Message! Ever feel your life is too loud to hear yourself think? We dive into a grounded path back to center using somatic awareness, mindfulness, shamanic journeying, and tantra-informed movement. Christine Rene and Chantel Ochoa unpack how external inputs—news feeds, cluttered rooms, and other people’s needs—can hijack our nervous systems, then walk through practical ways to reclaim ag...

Send Us a Message! Breath without grounding floats away. Grounding without breath forgets to dream. We dove into the living relationship between air and earth—how vision, intuition, and voice meet presence, safety, and action—to turn inner whispers into real-world change. From composting heavy emotions with tree roots to freeing a stuck throat with one honest breath, we share simple practices that...

Send Us a Message! Ready to trade burnout for balance and turn everyday rituals into real energy work? We dive into the living language of the four elements—fire, water, air, and earth—and focus on Fire and Water as part one of a two part series. Christine and Shantel share personal stories, practical tips, and grounded tools you can use immediately, from manifestation water glasses to fire ritual...

Send Us a Message! A single phone call felt like lightning in the body, and everything changed. That’s how Stephanie’s story begins—a sudden, magnetic pull that cracked open visions, relentless poems, and a grief that didn’t belong to this lifetime. We invited her to share the journey from “I’m losing my mind” to published poet, from spiraling nights to grounded sovereignty, and how a past-life re...

Send Us a Message! The difference between a good circle and a life-shifting one often comes down to the invisible: presence, pacing, and the confidence to hold what arises without trying to fix it. We open up the craft of facilitation and show how to turn your certifications—Reiki, breathwork, hypnosis, somatics—into powerful group experiences that people remember and return to. In this episode, w...