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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 throughline is simple and radical: not everything needs to be healed. Some parts of you need to be accommodated, honored, and supported. We get real about sensory overload, anxiety, and the exhausting cognitive dissonance of trying to explain your lived experience in a world built for neurotypical nervous systems. Erin shares how diagnosis reshaped her relationship, unlocked grief and relief, and helped her release years of internalized ableism. We also name the harm that can happen in spiritual communities when toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing turn healing into a performance, especially for neurodivergent entrepreneurs who are already masking to survive. From there, we bring it into spiritual entrepreneurship and energy healing: how to create neuroaffirming programs, why flexibility is access, and what it means to build a business structure that matches true capacity instead of hustle culture. Erin also shares the story behind Five Element Dragonfire Reiki, weaving Reiki, traditional Chinese medicine meridians, five-element theory, and dragon medicine into a modality designed for deeper integration. If you’re a Reiki practitioner, healer, coach, or spiritually gifted creative, listen, share it with a friend who needs permission to stop “fixing” themselves, and subscribe and leave a review so more people can find neuroaffirming support. Learn about Erin Ryan and her offerings here:  www.FiveElementDragonFireReiki.com https://north-star.mykajabi.com/ https://www.facebook.com/erin.ryan.355 www.instagram.com/5elementdragonfirereiki https://www.youtube.com/@Crystallakereiki email: [email protected] Biz Phone: 815-893-9590 Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 your spiraling mind.  In this episode we'll explore: 🌕 Tantra defined as weaving together awareness, vitality, and liberation  🌖 Why sacred tantra is bigger than sex and brings reverence to all of life  🌗 Deconditioning “I’m not enough” and stepping out of transactional relationships  🌘 Holding grief and frustration while caregiving for a parent with dementia  🌑 Anxiety reframed as an experience rather than an identity  🌒 Grounding tools that slow the mind and bring attention back to the body  🌓 What happens when emotions, vulnerability, or unexpected energy arise during intimacy​  🌔 Nature, breath, sound, and movement as practical embodiment supports  🌕 Kundalini Yoga’s role in calming the nervous system and building awareness  🌖 What to expect from tantra workshops and the Austin Intro to Sacred Tantra training Patrick shares how tantra supported him through separation, chronic anxiety, and the ongoing heartbreak of watching his father move through early Alzheimer’s and short-term memory loss. We talk about the moment you catch yourself “holding it in,” and how sacred tantra invites something more honest: feeling frustration without dumping it on others, honoring grief as grief, and still staying present for love and connection.  We wrap with what Patrick offers in workshops and how the Intro to Sacred Tantra training in Austin, Texas (January 15th through the 18th, 2027) can serve as a foundation for deeper SkyDancing Tantra study. We invite you to join us!  If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find Wisdom Rising. Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 beautiful parts, the awkward parts, the funny parts, and the deeply tender parts of bringing Tantra, Shamanic Reiki, embodiment, energy, and conscious communication into our intimate relationship. In this episode, we’ll explore: • What Tantra actually looks like inside a real relationship • How we experience sexual energy as something that can move through the body rather than something we simply “use” to reach orgasm • Breath, movement, and sound as practices for awakening and circulating sexual energy • Anatomy, arousal, and understanding your own body as part of your orgasmic potential • Consent as an ongoing conversation—not just a one-time yes or no • The role of play, creativity, curiosity, and relaxation in pleasure • What happens when emotions, vulnerability, or unexpected energy arise during intimacy • Shamanic visioning, sexual magic, and the spiritual dimensions of sexuality • The importance of aftercare, nesting, and giving the body space to integrate We also talk about the realities of teaching Tantra and creating spaces where people can explore intimacy, sexuality, energy, and embodiment with integrity. That includes the ethics and boundaries that matter when you bring this kind of work into workshops, retreats, and trainings. This isn't a step-by-step formula for having better sex. Some things simply can't be turned into a formula—and we don't think they should be. Instead, we're interested in what makes deeper intimacy possible: presence, trust, communication, curiosity, play, and the willingness to let go of performance. Because sacred sexuality isn't about becoming better at sex. It's about becoming more present to yourself, your body, your partner, your energy, and the experience you're actually having. And sometimes, that means getting really honest about what happens in the bedroom. We also share ways our workshops and trainings support this path, including upcoming offerings through Moon Rising Shamanic Institute and an Intro to Sacred Tantra training in Austin. You can find Christine's Substack here.  If this conversation sparks something in you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. What’s one thing you want to feel more of in your intimacy right now? Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 who we are 🌖 The long arc from being a doormat to becoming self-led 🌗 Physical, emotional, and psychic boundaries that actually hold 🌘 Grounding with the earth and using release as “compost” 🌑 Sexual energy as a life force you can direct​ 🌒 Bottom-up healing through breath, sound, movement, and sensation 🌓 Moving energy through the chakras to build self-worth and clarity​ 🌔 Relationship alignment, reciprocity, and learning to say no 🌕 She Who Rises, The Art of Receiving Retreat, and Intro to Sacred Tantra training details Christine Renee shares how sexual energy can be cultivated as life force and directed through the system to support anxiety relief, clearer communication, stronger self-worth, and more authentic connection. We also talk about verticality (anchored into the earth and connected to the cosmos) and how that inner alignment changes your relationships, your intuition, and your ability to stay centered when criticism, judgment, or psychic noise shows up. We also share ways to work with desired reality, trust your next step, and create space for a fuller, more pleasurable life. If this resonates, subscribe to Wisdom Rising, share it with a friend who needs stronger boundaries, and leave a review so more people can find these shamanic Reiki, tantra, somatic healing, and chakra balancing teachings. What would change in your life if you trusted your no today? She Who Rises: The Inner Temple: 3 Month Online Course and Energy Mentorship Program starts September 29th: https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/she-who-rises The Art of Receiving: Women's Day Retreat in Bozeman, MT October 18th: https://www.lighthousebzn.love/events/the-art-of-receiving Intro to Sacred Tantra: 4 day Training in Austin, TX: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ #embodiment #spiritualdevelopment #kundaliniawakening #tantra #feminineenergy  Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 podcasts, and building community from the ground up, then trace how that same resourceful approach becomes a repeatable marketing strategy for online entrepreneurs. In this episode we'll explore:  🌕 Kimra’s path from learning basic tech to building a thriving online brand 🌖 Community building through genuine connection and support 🌗 Why oversaturation and viral culture can create fake expertise 🌘 Relationship-first marketing as a trust reset 🌑 Meeting ideal clients where they already consume content 🌒 Serving students well through Q&A and real access 🌓 Selling tangible outcomes instead of vague spiritual buzzwords 🌔 Long-form content strategy with smart repurposing into short clips 🌕 Details on the Be True Brand You program starting September 17th For our Reiki practitioners, shamanic healers, and spiritual entrepreneurs, Kimra shares practical guidance you can apply today: niche down, sell a tangible outcome, and write copy that sounds like a real human speaking your client’s language. We also unpack the downside of letting AI write your messaging for you, and why long-form content still converts when you want deeper clients who are ready to do the work. If you’re curious about Kimra’s next Be True Brand You round starting September 17th, we share what’s inside and why it’s designed to be customized to you. Subscribe, share this with a friend building a heart-led business, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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. We also clear up a common misconception: tantra isn’t only for couples and Shiva and Shakti aren’t gender labels. They’re inner principles that live in every person. When we learn to sense what’s happening inside us, we get more honest about what we want, what we fear, and where our boundaries are. That self-awareness makes it easier to communicate without collapsing into people-pleasing, defensiveness, or shame. From there, intimacy becomes what it’s meant to be: seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. You’ll get a simple guided practice to help you land in your feet, track sensation, add sound, invite the spine into movement, and notice what changes when you slow down and stay present. We also talk about the real skill of the work: returning when you lose presence, and using that moment as a pathway back to connection. We close with ways to go deeper through upcoming offerings, including: 🌹 She Who Rises, the Inner Temple online women's only training beginning September 28th 🌹Intro to Sacred Tantra training in Austin, Texas January 15-18th, 2027 If this resonates, subscribe, share it with someone you want more presence with, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What’s one moment where you most want to stay present: during touch, during conflict, or during a hard conversation? Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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, and embodied personal development, Wilder explores the intersection of self-trust, relationship, sexuality, and human transformation. We explore a simple shift that can change everything: treating emotions like signals you can welcome, not threats you have to suppress. Along the way, Wilder shares how curiosity and connection are not soft skills, they are biological design, and how the nervous system is always scanning for one thing: safety. In this episode we'll explore: 🌕 Welcoming feelings as signals that want acknowledgment 🌖 Being born wired for connection and curiosity 🌗 Recognizing fight flight freeze appease patterns in the soma 🌘 Practicing radical responsibility without self-abandonment 🌑 Noticing how suppressed truth can become physical symptoms 🌒 Tools to find your “home within yourself” 🌓 Calling in spiritual support to expand capacity in hard moments 🌔 Repurposing vigilance from scanning for danger to scanning for good 🌕 Mapping comfort stretch panic zones and taking body snapshots 🌖 Defining tantra as moving energy to support healthy relationships The conversation opens into matriarch embodiment and the weight many women carry through patriarchy, leadership, and the second shift, plus tools for finding “home within yourself” anywhere. Wilder also offers a grounded, trauma-informed definition of tantra as learning to generate and move energy through the body so you feel supported by the earth, connected to source, and capable of healthier relationships. Her vision is a world in which people have the self-trust and embodied awareness to make choices that are truly their own, the relational skills to create honest and nourishing connection, and the courage to build lives that reflect who they are becoming. If this resonates, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find this work. Wilder lives and works in Hawai‘i and California and is developing her writing, speaking, retreats, and teaching through Cultivating Aliveness and the Hawaii School of Tantra. Links to connect with Wilder: cultivatingaliveness.io hawaiischooloftantra.com wilderakashagrace.com Book referenced on this episode: The 5 Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler Moon Rising Shamanic Institute is sponsoring the Intro to Sacred Tantra, a 4-day tantra training in Austin, Texas January 15-18th, 2027 where Wilder Akasha and Jim Macdonald will be facilitating. Christine Renee, host of the Wisdom Rising podcast, will be there assisting as well. Learn more and register here: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ #somatichealing #connection #spiritualpodcast #tantra #traumahealing  Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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, elemental magic, and energy healing can live inside ordinary life without floating away from reality.  🌕Angela’s path from holistic nutrition to herbal apprenticeships and intuitive healing work 🌖Plant allies as relationship, not just remedies 🌗Using a Peruvian-influenced medicine wheel to link elements, directions, and organ systems 🌘Breath, lungs, and grief as a doorway into embodied healing 🌑Flower essences and how people discover the plants that “call” to them 🌒Asking permission to harvest and what changes when we slow down 🌓Offerings to the land and the practice of leaving a place whole 🌔Upcoming workshops, Gathering of the Mystics, and Angela’s work with the witch wound We also get honest about ethics: asking permission before harvesting, giving offerings like tobacco or cornmeal, filling in the earth, and paying attention when a plant clearly does not want to be taken. Angela tells a powerful story about balsamroot and consent, plus why daily grounding practices like barefoot time on the earth can steady your nervous system. We even nerd out on comfrey, permaculture uses, and what it means to reclaim the “witch” as a historical herbal healer while addressing the witch wound.  If you love plant medicine, shamanic Reiki, flower essences, ethical wildcrafting, and practical mysticism, hit play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find this work. What’s one plant you feel drawn to right now? Learn more about Angela and her offerings here: www.elementalmagick.net Join the mystical fun in Bozeman, MT at the Gathering of the Mystics September 11-13th, 2026! Learn more and register here: www.gatheringofmystics.com Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 his first Qigong workshop and the surprising “trance-like” clarity it sparked: relaxed, present, and suddenly able to feel energy moving through everything. From there we unpack how Qigong, Reiki, yoga, and tantra all point to the same core skill: shifting from past and future into the now so your nervous system can regulate, your intuition can speak, and your creativity can come online. We also talk about why the mind is a helpful first mate but a terrible captain, and how agency grows when your yes and no come from the body instead of fear or people-pleasing. We zoom in on community spaces that support sober connection, including the Austin's Embodiment Festival (Sept 18 to 20). Peter shares how he curates a welcoming, spacious container with an ebb and flow of modalities, plus standout practices like Latihan (blindfolded movement meditation that trains intuition and consent) and a five elements dance journey that moves from grounded to expansive. We close with a grounded reframe of tantra: not a technique checklist, but the ongoing practice of removing what blocks aliveness, intimacy, and authentic connection. Subscribe for more conversations on embodiment, energy healing, Qigong, tantra, and nervous system care, then share this with a friend who needs more presence and less pressure. If it resonates, leave a review and tell us what helps you drop into your body fastest. Here's your quick links to events discussed in today's podcast: Creating a Sacred Sex Life: Connection through Presence Live Webinar August 10th with Jim Macdonald & Christine Renee https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9AnGFdU-TzmVhQWRAabJdQ Intro to Tantra: Awakening to an Ecstatic Life5 Week Online Masterclass starting August 17th with Jim Macdonald & Christine Renee https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/intro-to-tantra Embodiment Festival, Austin TX Join us September 18-20th for a weekend of embodied exploration, authentic connection, movement, dance, touch, and transformation! Use coupon code Christine10 for a discount! https://www.everydaytantra.com/event-details-registration/austin-embodiment-festival Introduction to Sacred Tantra: Where Spirit & Body Meet in Austin, TexasJoin us January 15–18th, 2027 for a four-day immersive training designed to help you reconnect with yourself through breath, movement, sound, embodied awareness, sacred communication, and energy practices. https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 grounded instead of chaotic, this conversation is for you. We talk about why women gathering in ceremony can feel like a lost art and why it’s returning now. We get into the practical ingredients: clear group agreements, confidentiality, self-responsibility, and the powerful shift from rescuing to witnessing. We also share a retreat detail we love, the no-tissues agreement, because it gently trains agency and nervous system safety without shutting emotions down.  You’ll hear behind-the-scenes stories from our own women’s retreats, including a four-elements arrival flow, cacao, sound bath, mirror work, journaling, pendulum basics, DIY oils, and the importance of pacing. Christine also shares a somatic emotional release ritual from Austin, followed by long integration rest and Reiki to help the body process what it just moved. We wrap with what we’re building next, including potential retreats in Hemet, California, Austin in the spring, and an MLK weekend Sacred Tantra retreat where integration is the heart of the work. Subscribe for more shamanic Reiki, energy healing, women’s retreat wisdom, and sacred space practices, then share this with a friend who needs a softer place to land. Will you leave us a review and tell us what kind of retreat you’re craving most? Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 through alcoholism, relapse, and the moment he knew he wouldn’t survive if he kept going. From 12-step recovery to Buddhism, Reiki, and deeper consciousness work, we track how shame and suppression can drive the need to alter our state just to feel confident, playful, or connected. We also talk about the cultural normalization of uppers and downers, coffee to push through the day and alcohol to shut off at night, and what changes when we stop forcing our bodies into a schedule that doesn’t fit. We go deep on psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine, including the neuroplasticity window and why it can either support new habits or amplify the inner critic if you return to old patterns. Derek offers a grounded alternative through transpersonal journey work and hypnotherapy: not “renting the view,” but building the window, learning how to access non-ordinary reality and nervous system regulation without needing a chemical shortcut. If you’ve been curious about psychedelics, navigating sobriety, or trying to heal without bypassing your real life, this conversation gives you language, nuance, and practical next steps. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find Wisdom Rising. Connect with Derrick at https://www.dgtwellness.com/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/share/1BaDU1qnVB/?mibextid=wwXIfr Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 SpiritFest, sharing why she created a platform for retreats, courses, and ongoing support. From there we meet Erin, a mobile massage therapist blending Swedish relaxation with trigger point and treatment work, plus Allie from Lighthouse Bozeman, who brings sound healing into the spotlight with coherent field work and a powerful Sun Gong experience. If you’ve been curious about vibration therapy, gong baths, or sound as medicine, you’ll hear why the “felt” experience matters as much as the explanation. We also talk intuitive tools that help people navigate transition seasons. Sharon Nicole offers astrology readings and oracle readings, tying self-expression and creativity to chart placements, while Monique breaks down mediumship, Reiki, theta healing, and QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique). She explains the theta brainwave state, exploring past-life or ancestral roots of patterns, shifting beliefs that no longer serve, and inviting deeper physical, mental, and emotional healing. The thread running through it all is simple: release what doesn’t fit anymore, trust your intuition, and listen to your body. If you’re looking for energy healing, sound healing, astrology, QHHT, Reiki, or spiritual events in Bozeman, this is a great place to start. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave us a review with the modality you want to try next. CONNECT WITH LAUREN https://www.etherictide.com CONNECT WITH ERYN: https://www.massagebook.com/therapists/sky-to-earth-massage/deals?ncf_source=friendly_url&src=massagebook CONNECT WITH ALLY: https://www.lighthousebzn.love CONNECT WITH SHARON NICHOLE: https://www.sharonnicoleofficial.com CONNECT WITH MONIQUE: https://www.moniqueengland.com/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 when life is lifing.  We talk about what drew Lola into Soul Rising during a major personal transition and why “self-work first” isn’t a slogan, it’s survival for caretakers, parents, and empaths. Lola breaks down her simple morning Reiki routine (breath, chakra focus, intention, and a protective bubble) and explains the difference it makes in patience, clarity, and classroom culture. We also explore somatic movement, matriarchal lineage support, and shamanic journeying that doesn’t require perfect visuals to be powerful.  Then Lola shares unforgettable moments of synchronicity: a Fire Horse journey that later mirrors a real tunnel-to-light experience, Lunar New Year symbols appearing in ordinary life, and a power animal story that moves through fear, grief, and surprising support. We also go into what it means to teach slavery, lynching, and discrimination truthfully while protecting students’ emotional wellness, and why mentorship and community matter when you’re doing spiritual growth without the guru model.  If you’re craving grounded spirituality, practical energy hygiene, and a path back to self-sourced wisdom, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with a teacher or empath in your life, and leave a review so more people can find the work.  Lola asks that if you enjoyed this episode, please consider donating to Foot Soldiers Park to preserve Selma history at https://footsoldierspark.org/donate/ If you are interesting in joining Shantel Ochoa for Soul Contract & Alchemizing Archetypes Masterclass, learn more here: https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/soul-contracts-archetypes/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 explore a framework that offers meaning without denying the pain, and a set of tools you can use to reclaim your power day by day. In this episode, we’ll explore: 🌕 Soul contracts as pre-birth agreements with soul family that shape relationships and life lessons  🌖 Levels of consciousness, universal laws, free will, and how guides communicate through symbols and synchronicities  🌗 Archetypes as universal energy patterns and personal mirrors, including charting them through the 12 houses  🌘 Victim archetype as a map for power leaks, transformed through the sacred warrior and clean boundaries  🌑 Saboteur archetype as fear and self-sabotage, shifted through the magician and intentional creation  🌒 Prostitute archetype as self-compromise for security or approval, healed through the lover and self-worth  🌓 Six child archetypes as roots of adult triggers, integrated into the sovereign child and inner authority  🌔 Course format overview: eight weeks of videos, workbooks, live classes, journeys, and community support Shantel draws on teachings linked to Carolyn Myss and Dolores Cannon (including QHHT influences), while grounding everything in lived experience and clear choices you can make when you feel triggered. If you’re craving spiritual growth that improves your boundaries, relationships, self-trust, and emotional resilience, this one will meet you right where you are. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s doing deep healing work, and leave a review so more listeners can find Wisdom Rising. Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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 • using curiosity and metacognition to track reactions and rewrite old stories • working with archetypes, parts, and soul contracts to integrate the self • building energetic boundaries and differentiation to stay connected without shrinking • naming dissociation patterns and returning to presence in the physical realm • creating shared reality through collaboration instead of scarcity Christine Renee sits down with Lacee Gengenbacher to name what liminal spaces actually feel like: time standing still, identity shifting, and the Tower moment where what “worked” stops working. We talk honestly about how expansion can get tangled with a chronically activated nervous system, why calm can feel unsafe after chaos, and how to reframe growth so it doesn’t require pain and suffering to be valid. Along the way, we dig into embodiment, nervous system safety, dissociation, and the practical power of curiosity and metacognition to track what’s really happening when you feel triggered. We also connect the dots between parts work and spiritual practice, including archetypes, soul contracts, and Internal Family Systems style language. When the ground moves under you, the inner voices get louder, and we share ways to meet those parts with intention instead of judgment. A thread we keep coming back to is connection: you’re only as connected to others as you are to yourself, and energetic boundaries help you stay in your truth without shutting down your light. We close by sharing what we’re building in community: the Gathering of the Mystics summit in Bozeman, Montana, a three day container designed for safe exploration, real integration, and shared medicine through speakers, workshops, and intentional ritual. If anything in your body perks up while you listen, trust that signal. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s in a threshold season, and leave a review so more people can find the support they’ve been looking for. Upcoming opportunities mentioned in this episode:  Soul Contracts & Alchemizing Archetypes Online Masterclass starts June 23rd: https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/soul-contracts-archetypes/ Gathering of the Mystics, Sept 11-13th, 2026 in Bozeman Montana: https://www.gatheringofmystics.com/ Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki Training, Sept, 2026: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/soul-rising/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt