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Let's slow down the physical practice of yoga this week and talk about some alternatives to fast-paced classes. We'll cover Restorative, Yin, Iyengar, and Kundalini practices - perhaps lesser known but equally valuable! And as always, I'll remind you that physical postures are not the only way to practice the philosophy of yoga and that in all our asana classes, we're looking to in...

It's a listener request episode! I'm going to go over a few different types of yoga asana (poses or postures, a physical practice) that you might see on a yoga studio schedule or in the name of a YouTube video. I'll share what you can expect in the practice, some benefits of each, and who each type might be good for. Hopefully having this information will help you decide what kind of y...

Let's talk about something awkward today, shall we? It's money. And I know we're not supposed to talk about it, certainly not as people interested in a spiritual path, but the fact is we do need money (or the energetic currency we call money) to survive in the physical world. Beliefs around money that get created when we're children and reinforced when we're adults can cause trauma to the Root Cha...

Today's episode is all about how to use journaling to get in touch with your authentic, highest self. We'll talk about some of the obstacles to journaling and how to overcome them, as well as three specific types of journaling that I've used and why each one is useful at different times in our lives.  Interested in the updated and refreshed 7 Day Chakra Manifesting Challenge? Learn more at ww...

On today's episode, my friend Ian Roth shares with us how integrating lessons from our past lives can help us heal in this one! He also shares how he got into performing past life regressions (or reviews, as he prefers to call them), why learning from our past experiences is so important, and how to find someone who can go through this process with you safely. If you want to find out more about Ia...

Today we hear from Amanda Kate, a practitioner of Energetic Kinesiology! Don't worry if you've never heard of it - I hadn't either! - but it turns out to be a healing tool that teaches us to change our subconscious patterning, leading to healed realtionships with our Self, our families, and possibly the world. She talks about how we can use this and other spiritual practices throughout our day to...

It's the fourth and final "A" of healing from Dr. Gabor Mate's The Myth of Normal, and it's acceptance. Acceptance is a heart chakra aspect and can refer to accepting all kinds of things - the Self, the Moment, the Past, and more. It isn't about tolerating what we accept, though. It's about having a realtionship with the truth that allows us to be open to change and growth, if we want it. Interest...

Can anger be used for healing? In Dr. Mate's book, The Myth of Normal, he says it not only can, but must be. We'll talk this week about how anger shows up in our lives (or doesn't, if you suppress it) and why it might be your process of dealing with anger that causes trauma, not the anger itself. Of course, we'll talk about healthy ways to experience and process anger that will lead us toward more...

The healing continues this week as we explore Agency, the second of the "As" Dr Gabor Mate offers in his book, The Myth of Normal. Agency is directly related to the Solar Plexus Chakra basic right of being able to act on your own behalf for your highest good. We'll learn how the skill of responding allows us to be sure we're showing up in the world in a way that aligns with our energy and values,...

One of the most common questions I get is "how do I start?" We want to start healing, start a spiritual journey, start manifesting, start something. And knowing where to begin can be confusing and overwhelming. Today I want to offer a first step in the healing process, adapted from Dr. Gabor Mate's work in his book, The Myth of Normal (if you haven't read it, I can't recommend it highly enough). O...

If you've ever been interested in manifesting, you've probably heard that positive thinking is the only way to go, and if you don't get what you want, it's your fault. Today we'll talk about how that's not even close to the truth. Negative thinking is normal and natural and unavoidable - so we just need to learn to use it to our advantage! When you understand WHY negative thoughts are showing up,...

I'm back with part two of Nicole Kerr's Near Death Experience! If you haven't listened to part one, it might be a good idea so that this episode will make sense and you'll get to know Nicole some. We talk about five of the main lessons she brought back to us from the other side (Spoiler: You Are Deathless!) and her mission to help change the conversation around death. We touch on some sensitive to...

Today I'm talking with award-winning author, Nicole Kerr, who shares her story of dying in a car accident (and then twice more in the hospital!) and what she learned from her experience on the other side. Her book, You Are Deathless, is the accounting of how she spent 20 years trying to recover her memory of the event, then how she integrated it into her life and made it her mission to share the t...

As 2022 wraps up and 2023 begins, a lot of people spend time reflecting and thinking about where they'd like to go in the new year. Today we're talking about setting intentions through our energy centers, a different way to understand ourselves and what we really want out of life, rather than constantly setting the same goals and seeing them fizzle out after a few weeks. Let's develop a deeper und...

This week I'm talking to Andrea Claassen, an Ayurvedic Practitioner, RYT 500 hour yoga teacher, and Wild Woman Circle leader who has been in the wellness space since 2007. Her mission is to help you start to live a cyclical life by living in alignment with your menstrual cycle and the seasons. She does this by teaching her Peaceful Power Practices centered around movement, mindfulness & mother...

How do you feel today? And how do you feel about feeling that way? It's an Inception-style question that seems like it could go on forever - a phenomenon known as "meta-emotions." In the Chakra world, it's when we take our emotions out of our bodies, out of our Sacral Chakras, and let our heads and Third Eye Chakras get involved. Sometimes that's okay - even good! - because we get to act as a witn...

It's holiday time...again. And whether you love or hate the holidays, they tend to cause a lot of stress for a lot of reasons. Today's episode is a replay of part of a 2020 talk I did on manifesting a holiday experience, starting at the Crown Chakra and going down to the Root Chakra. It's not to create a perfect evening or event, rather to help you create space in yourself for ALL your feelings, a...

This week is part two of my interview with Jen Moore, and empath and author who helps other empaths understand themselves and how to deal with the world. Last week we talked about what exactly an empath is, the unique challenges of existing in the world while feeling others emotions as your own, and why we can all benefit from moving towards empathy whether we identify as an empath or not, and tod...

Empath - the word gets thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? Do empaths even exist? This week, I'm talking to Jen Moore, author of Empathic Mastery about what an Empath is and the difference between being an empath and having empathy. We'll discuss the history of the word and the experience, why it's coming to the forefront of our consciousness at this particular time in the world,...

This week I want to introduce you to Lion Goodman - subconscious pattern detective, belief therapist, and healer of the psyche. His work centers around clearing our limiting beliefs so that we can create the life we want to live. We'll talk about what a limiting belief is, where they come from, how to identify them, and what to do about it when you find one. We also talk about the kinds of limitin...

It's time to talk about the final stress response of the series - the Fawn Response. In the fawn response, we’re trying to diffuse a dangerous situation, but not in a way that is helpful to us. It's one of the least studied responses, but one that I think a lot of us use and will recognize. When we fawn, we're trying to placate our aggressor at the expense of our own mental and emotional health. I...

It's time to talk about the Freeze Response - the Throat Chakra's reaction to stress. Freeze isn’t complicated. We’re faced with a threat and we freeze. Physically we take no action. We don’t say anything. It’s as if our bodies have shut down, that any message from the brain that we’re in danger and might do something about it never gets translated to the body. We start to take up less energetic s...

Today we're talking about the Flight response to stress! This is a very common response and can show itself as avoiding, distracting, and procrastinating. We'll learn about how this response might be useful when confronted with a physical danger, but how the emotional and mental dangers that we most often encounter in our modern lives can't be run from.  This stress response is based in fear...

Today we’re talking about the sympathetic nervous system stress response. You might have heard this called fight or flight, to which we'll add freeze and fawn in the upcoming weeks. We'll talk about all of these stress responses - why they happen, why they’re great (and not so great), as well as which chakras might be imbalanced by them if we’re in a constant state of stress arousal. And I’ll give...

Get ready for an in depth conversation about chakras, archetypes, how we can heal ourselves, our planet, and how to start bringing traditionally feminine traits to the forefront of leadership and our culture. It's an amazing conversation with one of my primary teachers of the chakras, and a world renowned expert, Anodea Judith.  Anodea Judith, Ph. D. is a groundbreaking thought leader and bes...