Shamanism, Reiki, Spirituality, Personal Development, and More. It’s time to re-member your Divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join Shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa as they guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week we dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing, and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom. Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners, we’re here to help you acknowledge, reconcile, and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising within. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at MoonRisingInstitute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitute.com, to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of Shamanic mystics.
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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 you’ve ever felt stuck on the struggle bus, this conversation offers a grounded way to name what’s going on and start changing it.
Today we’ll explore:
Defining suffering as mental loops and stucknessNoticing when pain becomes identity and comparison culture reinforces itUnderstanding how the brain and body relive the past through stress chemistrySeparating mind healing from somatic healing and why both matterUsing expression and integration to release stored traumaWorking with the four bodies: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritualCalling power back through forgiveness, boundaries, and radical responsibilityReparenting shadow parts and nurturing the inner bearChoosing yin softness or yang strength based on what you needShifting frequency through self-care, community, nature, and being witnessedWe also share why loneliness can show up during growth, how to choose environments that “vibrate up,” and why being witnessed is medicine. If you’re drawn to energy healing, we mention upcoming ways to go deeper, including Reiki Level One training and She Who Rises, a 3-Month Journey of Feminine Awakening, Energy Mastery & Embodied Power focused on chakras, aura, psychic protection, and energetic sovereignty. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.
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The Art Of Creating Ceremony
2026/04/09
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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 facilitate circles, rituals, or community gatherings.
We talk about why ceremony helps people drop the mask, speak from the heart, and feel truly seen and heard. Then we get specific about what makes facilitation ethical and effective: trauma-informed spaceholding, consent and boundaries, energetic hygiene, psychic protection, and the often-missed step of integration time at the end so participants can ground what moved. We also cover the real-world facilitator mechanics that matter just as much as the mysticism, like timekeeping, managing oversharing, and creating clear sharing prompts that keep a group connected.
From moon circles to elemental rituals, we walk through ceremony styles you can adapt to your own voice: new moon manifestation and full moon release, cacao ceremony as heart-centered plant medicine, Reiki-infused circles, sound baths, shamanic drum circles, and money mindset candle ceremonies including building money bowls with herbs and intention. We also explain how practice and feedback build confidence faster than theory, and how our training structure supports you as you step from student to facilitator.
If you’re ready to create sacred space that’s grounded, safe, and deeply transformational, listen now and then subscribe, share this with a friend who leads circles, and leave a review so more people can find the work.
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You Too Can Lead Sacred Ceremony
2026/04/06
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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:
• The shift toward in-person spiritual community and why it matters
• Shantel’s journey into becoming a full-time ceremonialist
• Christine’s experience in blessingway ceremonies to Goddess playdates
• Ceremonial elements that deepen engagement
• Using ceremonies as a low-risk way for people to meet your work and upscale your business
• Details on the Art Of Creating Ceremony training format and practice-based feedback
• Tomorrow night’s offering of a mini training session on the art of creating ceremonies
We also get practical about the business side of spiritual facilitation. A consistent monthly ceremony can be a lower-cost entry point where people experience your energy, trust your leadership, and naturally ask about private Reiki sessions, shamanic healing, mentorship, trainings, or retreats. If you’ve been craving community, wanting to serve your town, or feeling the nudge to lead, this conversation is your permission slip and a roadmap.
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Crafting Sacred Ceremony Spaces with Intention & Ritual
2026/03/30
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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’ll explore:
Ceremony as cornerstone of practice and communityDefining sacred containersFacilitator presence, grounding, and energetic check‑insTalking sticks, time limits, and pacingDrum circles with intention not noiseBalancing depth, play, and collective energyTrusting small groups, themes, and alignmentMentorship, collaboration, and elevating detailsThe Art Of Creating Ceremony training logisticsWe dive into practical tools: building an altar as a living offering, calling the directions or ancestors in a way that fits your lineage, and using a talking stick to balance voices. We break down facilitator skills you can practice today—reading the room, setting time boundaries with kindness, and choosing elemental focus to match the moment. Our candid stories reveal how the elements teach in real time, including a fire that roared two feet high indoors and a stubborn scrap of “fear” that refused to burn. These moments aren’t accidents; they’re messages. Learn to notice, reflect, and integrate the signs so participants leave lighter and clearer.
If you’ve felt the nudge to lead—whether you’re a Reiki practitioner, coach, yoga teacher, or community builder—we map the path from curiosity to confident spaceholding. We also unveil The Art of Creating Ceremony, our six‑week training that blends learning with live creation: moon circles, cacao, elemental rites, drum journeys, candle magic, and prosperity rituals. You’ll rotate into the facilitator seat, receive feedback, and leave with adaptable templates and the nervous‑system steadiness that makes every tool work.
Come for grounded guidance, stay for the stories, and leave with a blueprint you can apply to your next circle. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who’s ready to lead, and leave a review telling us: which element are you called to work with first?
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Meet Your Spirit Guide In The Shamanic Upper World
2026/03/23
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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 realmAsking Spirit for help and how support shows up through collaborationThe need for sacred containers where masks can soften safelyWhat the upper world is and how spirit guides differ from celestial beings or angelsHow the upper world may appear as light, clouds, temples, gardens, or symbolsReleasing expectations and receiving through sight, sound, feeling, scent, or knowingGuided journey: calling directions, traveling up, meeting a guide, receiving messages and giftsSharing experiences and invitations to connect with the communityWe start by reflecting on the impact of a Lower World journey to meet a Power Animal, including how quickly people discover, “Wait, I can do this.” From there we talk about what happens when we stop trying to muscle our way through growth alone. Christine shares a real-time story of divine timing and collaboration, the kind that lands right after you finally say, “Help me, meet me halfway.” We also explore why spiritual burnout is so common and how sacred containers, ceremony, and community support create the safety needed for vulnerability and real healing.
Then we shift into an introduction to the Upper World in shamanism: a high-vibration realm of spirit guides, loving ancestors, angels, compassion, unity, and wisdom. We explain how the Upper World may appear as light, clouds, water, temples, gardens, or pure energy and why releasing expectations is key to receiving clear messages through the mind’s eye and the senses. Finally, we lead a guided shamanic journey to the Upper World to meet your spirit guide, receive a message, exchange a gift, and return grounded with gratitude.
If this lights something up in you, listen through, share your experience with us, and subscribe for more shamanic journeying, energy healing, and shamanic Reiki teachings. If you found it helpful, please share the episode with a friend and leave a review.
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Guided Shamanic Journey to Meet Your Power Animal
2026/03/16
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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 explain what the lower world is, how the entrance can show up as tunnels, roots, water, or a crack in the earth, and why the landscape often mirrors what you need most right now.
We’ll explore:
What the lower world is and why it feels earthy and groundingHow power animals communicate through metaphor and symbolismWhy your entrance and landscape can change from journey to journeyHow to notice sensory details to make the journey feel clearer and more “real”What calling in the seven directions does and how it creates energetic safetyA guided shamanic journey to meet your power animalA live example journey with a black bear and the lesson of the honeycombHow we teach journeying inside Soul Rising Shamanic ReikiWe also get practical about power animals: why they show up as protectors, how they carry the “medicine” of their species, and why small or unexpected animals (and even mythical creatures) can be exactly right. We talk about symbolism and metaphor as the primary language of spirit animals, plus the single biggest skill that makes journeywork easier over time: releasing expectations and letting the experience unfold through your senses.
Then we guide you through a full lower world visualization to meet a helping spirit, receive a message, and return safely to your starting point. After the journey, Christine shares a vivid story of merging with a mama black bear and finding honey surrounded by bees, a lesson on going for the sweetness of life even when fear tries to keep you back. We also share how our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki training supports students with journeying, interpretation, and a protected container for deeper healing work.
If this resonates, share your power animal experience with us, and subscribe so you don’t miss the next Whispers of Wisdom. If you loved the journey, leave a review and send this to a friend who needs more grounded guidance.
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Rooted And Ready: Shamanic Journeying And The Lower World
2026/03/09
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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 is and why intention matters
🌗 The power of sensory experience in Lower World journeys
🌘 Difference between surrendering in journey and interpreting after
🌑 Power animals as teachers of pace and pattern
🌒 Working with snake, eagle, mouse, elephant, snail medicine
🌓 Discerning shadow vs light and maintaining boundaries
🌔 Bringing journey insights into Reiki and daily life
🌕 Details on our Soul Rising shamanic Reiki training
We explore power animals as allies with real-world impact. Think elephant for loyalty and family, mouse for precise repair, eagle for retrieval and perspective, and snake for deep clearing and renewal. We talk about discerning shadow from light, how to avoid forcing meanings, and why surrendering during the journey matters as much as interpreting afterward. If you practice Reiki or energy work, you’ll learn how journey skills sharpen boundaries, reduce projection, and turn session imagery into grounded insights clients can use the same day.
This conversation lives where spirit meets daily life. We honor the Western need for story without getting stuck in it, then translate symbolic lessons into small actions: breath when heavy, movement when numb, perspective when fixated on the problem. We explain a simple framework to enter non-ordinary reality safely, meet your allies, and return with clear next steps. Curious to go further with trusted guidance and community? Explore our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki training, now in early-bird enrollment. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs grounding, and leave a review to help others find the work.
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Everyday Shamanism, Simply Explained
2026/03/02
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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 explore:
Shamanism as presence, not doctrineListening to wind, sun, and seasons for cuesDrumming and rattles for trance and soul retrievalMeeting and embodying power animalsShadow work through energy centers and elementsCalling on loving ancestors for supportWe unpack animism in plain language: everything carries spirit, and the elements are willing collaborators. Water rinses what you no longer need. Wind clears busy thoughts. Earth holds and composts. Fire transforms. We share stories from outdoor Reiki sessions, group drumming, and those uncanny times when nature answers a prayer in real time. You’ll hear how power animals show up with specific medicine—sometimes ferocity, often rest and nourishment—and how embodying their traits changes posture, breath, and daily choices.
Shadow work runs beneath it all. We talk through meeting anger and grief without flinching, working through the energy centers, and calling back lost parts with compassion. As clarity returns, health habits shift, boundaries strengthen, and community appears where expansion is welcomed. No dogma. No one-size-fits-all routine. Just tools you can adapt—breath, smudge, journeying, journaling—to access self-sourced wisdom on command.
We also open early bird enrollment for our five-month Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki program, designed for real schedules with flexible call times, recordings, and an app-based community. Whether you’re brand new to journeying or ready to deepen your practice, you’ll learn to trust your visions, work with guides, and build rituals that stick. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s waking at 2 a.m., and leave a review with the one practice you’re trying this week.
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From Loss to Purpose: Grief, Ritual, And Renewal
2026/02/23
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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 emotion, and choosing tiny acts of life that keep you moving when the weight says stay in bed.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
🌕 Turning grief from paralysis into practice
🌖 Cultural timelines for funerals and energy movement
🌗 Grief beyond death: identity, relationship, opportunity
🌘 Ongoing bonds, signs, and frequency of connection
🌑 Service as integration and post‑traumatic growth
🌒 Using archetypes and soul contracts to map meaning
🌓 Community spaces for being witnessed and supported
Whether you relate to mysticism or prefer a psychological frame, the core insight holds: grief needs motion, breath, and witness. You’ll hear practical tools like thought catching to stop mental spirals, timeboxing to honor waves without losing the day, and body‑based practices that move grief through the chakras so healing is felt, not just analyzed.
If you’re early in grief, take what helps and leave what doesn’t. When you’re ready for more structure, we share two pathways: our Conscious Grievers group, which blends coaching, energy work, and community, and our Soul Contracts and Archetypes masterclass starting March 23rd to map meaning and reclaim agency. And Join the Mystic Moon Collective, our monthly membership with weekly classes! Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help others find this space. Your presence lifts the collective—one honest breath at a time.
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Finding Safety In Sacred Spaces
2026/02/17
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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 choices rather than rushed practices.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
🌕 Naming desire and boundaries as core skills
🌖 Why context-rich introductions build empathy
🌗 Five-minute integration transitions are valued over more practices
🌘 Simple somatic resets to integrate
🌑 Reaffirming the sacred container each day
🌒 How to design meals for processing
🌓 Upcoming women’s tantra circles and trainings
We get practical fast. You’ll hear simple tools that change the room in minutes: one-word emotion rounds, quick chakra check-ins, collective sighs, shaking and brushing off energy, and five-minute integration windows between practices. We talk through context-rich introductions that include desires, fears, and boundaries so participants can empathize and calibrate. We also share a favorite design move for tight schedules: intentional meal tables—quiet journaling, open processing, Q&A with assistants, and light social a—so connection keeps breathing even when the agenda is full.
Real mastery of facilitation meets people at the gate—honoring sovereignty, reaffirming the sacred container each day, and inviting voice without forcing performance. If you facilitate spiritual retreats, circles, or trainings this is a blueprint for building nervous-system-safe spaces where people can risk, reveal, and integrate.
We also share upcoming offerings: She Who Speaks, our women’s tantra integration circle; Mystic Moon Collective with a guided shamanic journey; Intro to Tantra; and a Valentine’s Day self-love package designed to activate daily rituals and clear limiting beliefs. Find our complete calendar of events here! If this conversation resonates, share it with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a review telling us one practice that makes you feel safe to share. Your insight might be the exact tool another listener needs.
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Return To The Self; Somatic, Mindful, Shamanic
2026/02/09
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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 agency and come home to the body.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
🌕 Returning to the self as a practical path
🌖 Reducing external inputs and reclaiming agency
🌗 Somatic curiosity: color, shape, movement of tension
🌘 Full guided drop-in and mini heart practice
🌑 Movement, breathwork, and tantra-informed tools
🌒 Archetypes for patterns, boundaries, and balance
🌓 Shamanic release, cord cutting, and soul retrieval
You’ll be guided through two practices you can repeat anytime: a fuller somatic drop-in that helps you identify where tension lives, what it looks like, and how it wants to move; and a fast “mind-to-heart” reset that quiets analysis so a wiser answer can surface. We talk about the witch’s wound and the courage to feel safe sharing spiritual gifts, why dance and breath unstick old emotions, and how small, consistent rituals build trust with yourself. If you’ve ever asked why the same patterns keep returning, we explore a powerful metaphor: setting down the backpack of the past. Through shamanic tools like symbolic release and soul retrieval, those cords thin with practice, and the body becomes your early warning system when you try to pick the weight back up.
We also show how archetypes and soul contracts illuminate patterns in relationships and leadership, improving boundaries and communication. From sunrise prayers to altar time, from quantum light breath to gentle stretching, this conversation invites you to design rituals that match your life so you can move from constriction to expansion. For deeper study and community, we share details on Soul Rising, Archetypes and Soul Contracts, Intro to Tantra with Jim McDonald, Facilitator Training for ceremonial space, and our weekly Mystic Moon Collective.
If this conversation helps you breathe easier, share it with a friend who needs a reset, subscribe so you don’t miss new episodes, and leave a review with your favorite practice you’ll try this week.
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From Breath To Root: Balancing Airy Vision With Earthly Grounding For Real-World Manifestation
2026/02/02
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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 help you shift out of loops and into flow.
In this episode, we'll explore:
Air as ideas, intuition and communicationEarth as presence, safety and manifestationComposting heavy emotion into usable energyBody scans to locate energy by chakra and elementPractical tools for grounding and breath-based releaseSpotting imbalance and language to rebalance clientsGrief without judgment as a sign of alivenessShamanic journeywork as earth body and air visionCommunity practice in an interactive monthly containerWe map manifestation as a pathway through the elements and the body: air brings the idea and the language, fire lends will, water fuels creativity, and earth gives it bones. That path also runs in reverse, lifting primal desire at the root up through breath and voice until it radiates into your field as a clear invitation. Along the way, we unpack signs of imbalance—overthinking, anxiety, disassociation, hyper-focus on details—and offer language and facilitation prompts that widen a grounded state or land a lofty one. This is Kokoro in action: heart, mind, and body aligned so thought serves love and the body carries change until it’s real.
You’ll hear a vivid journey story of merging with a golden field of consciousness—why several people can receive the same idea at once—and how to pour that light back into daily life: food, movement, ritual, and care. We close with practical, shamanic tools you can use today: drumming, feathers, incense, calling directions, crystal grids, and a body-led check-in to choose earth or air on purpose. Plus, we introduce our Mystic Moon Collective, a monthly, interactive space with shamanic journey (earth) and sacred conversations (air) designed to help you practice, share, and grow with community.
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Elemental Wisdom of Fire and Water
2026/01/26
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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 rituals.
In today’s episode we’ll explore:
Elemental personalities and how to spot themWater as cleanser, conduit and intention carrierSafe disposal and home energy hygiene with waterFire for release, illumination and solar plexus powerExpanding beyond the warrior archetypePresence, gratitude and dissolving FOMOMystic Moon Collective: tarot, Reiki share, journeys, sacred conversationsWe also introduce the Mystic Moon Collective, a weekly membership designed around the elements: tarot for fiery clarity, Reiki shares for watery flow, shamanic journeys for earthy roots, and sacred conversations for airy insight. Each session is interactive, welcoming all levels, and supported by a private community chat so you can practice, reflect, and get feedback between gatherings. If you’re craving structure that still leaves room for magic, this mix of ritual, skill-building, and community will feel like home.
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A Past Life Bleedthrough with Guest Stephanie Peters
2026/01/19
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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 regression gave shape to a mystery that words like chemistry could never hold.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
🌕 Clear cognizance, visions, and cognitive dissonance
🌖 The spiral into suicidality and seeking help
🌗 Therapy limits and turning to psychic support
🌘 Finding a “soul doctor” (that's Christine!!) and building sovereignty
🌑 Journeys, darkness at the edge, and sovereignty
🌒 Making boundaries with a past self
🌓 Assembling poems into a healing chronology
🌔 Hope, persistence, and choosing this life
We walk through the hard parts with care: cognitive dissonance that made reality blur, days of shaking that looked like seizures, and the fear of speaking up in case help meant being dismissed or medicated. Stephanie explains how therapy helped until it didn’t, and how a layered path—psychic guidance, Shamanic Reiki, sovereignty statements, nature, and Soul Rising—steadied her nervous system and returned her to the present. Along the way, the house hummed with strange phenomena, the treadmill surged on its own, and a closet became a chorus of footsteps. These moments aren’t just plot points; they’re lessons in energy hygiene and boundaries.
Stephanie’s book, A Past Life Bleed Through, collects poems received in the storm and arranges them into a map—from rupture to integration. You’ll hear why community matters, how shared patterns across journeys validate experience, and why trees became unexpected teachers in transmuting fear into steadiness.
If you’re curious about past lives, energy healing, spiritual emergence, or how creativity can become a lifeline, this story offers both language and tools. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help more seekers find their footing. Then tell us: what practice keeps you anchored when the unseen gets loud?
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The Art Of Holding Space: How To Lead Circles With Skill, Presence, and Heart
2026/01/12
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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, we’ll explore:
Aligning presence with breath, tone and pacingReading the room and guiding energy toward intentionDe-escalating conflict and time-bounding emotional surgesSomatic and meditative drops that open the heartCreating monthly circles that build community and retentionEthical pricing and the mindset of a spiritual entrepreneurMixed modalities as a unique facilitator signatureWe walk through the real skills you need to lead with heart and steadiness: reading the room, asking empowering questions, redirecting tangents, and de-escalating conflict without shaming anyone. You’ll hear how we use breath patterns, eye-softening, and body awareness to drop participants into a regulated, receptive state. Then we layer in sensory ritual—scent, candlelight, music, drumming—to signal safety and depth, and we map an arc that starts grounded, rises with purpose, and closes clean so people leave integrated and clear.
If you’re wondering how to make this sustainable, we go there too. Ethical pricing, consistency through monthly circles, and designing offers that fit your voice and community are central themes. Mixed modalities aren’t a problem to hide; they’re your signature. We outline our six-week intensive with Sunday skill sessions and Wednesday practicums, plus case studies and business support so you finish with a launch-ready class, series, or retreat and the inner certainty to deliver it.
Ready to step into leadership with grace and structure? Listen, take notes, and then take the leap and join The Art of Holding Space January 18th! If this resonates, share it with a friend who’s been “almost ready,” subscribe for more practical mysticism, and leave a quick review to help others find the show. Your community is waiting for you to show up.
Through the Veil, Conscious Grieving: Monthly Coaching Support Group begins January 12th
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K. Caig 2023/11/29
Great Reiki Topics!
Christine always explores interesting, valuable topics to help us in our everyday lines. I love her down to earth style, which makes listening such a ...
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LightGirl1979 2023/07/16
Tradition is for a reason …
The energy flows, there is a purpose. Stop changing reiki methods. Stop being offended by a 21 day practice. You are misleading the traditional ways.
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TheKidYouWannaBe 2022/07/01
Living a Reiki lifestyle 💓
Thank you soooo much, this has helped me so so so much, thank you for all you do💓