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In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Simone Kelly, who is a 5x Amazon Best Selling Author, media personality, and entrepreneur who has been building businesses since 1996. As founder of Own Your Power Communications, Own Your Power University, and the longtime host of the Own Your Power Lifestyle Show, she works as an Intuitive Life Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, and Certified Law of Attraction Master Life Coach. She is passionate about helping people reconnect with their intuition, own their power, and create lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. Simone shares her childhood intuitive experiences, how a physical sensation led her to make a decision that kept her safe, and the remarkable dream that encouraged her to pursue formal intuitive training. They also explore the relationship between self-knowledge and personal power, the influence of religious beliefs on how people understand intuition, and Simone's journey toward openly embracing her intuitive abilities in her personal and professional life. Visit Simone's YouTube Channel Here: https://youtu.be/4hOV7dE_shU?si=rxclvNBIWMDXmcJc

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Alishia McCullough, Founder of BlackandEmbodied Counseling, Somatic Healer, Author, and Culture Shifter about embodiment, integration, safety in the body, and creating lives our bodies no longer have to survive. Our bodies carry our lived experiences, histories, adaptations, and ways of knowing.  Their conversation moves through the historical and present-day experiences of Black bodies, recognizing and responding to what the body communicates, and what it means to move knowledge from something we intellectually understand into something we live. Alishia also shares how grief has become part of her integration process, how motherhood has changed the season of life she is in, and how moving to Mexico created a different relationship with her body, health, and environment.

Listening can be an act of care for another person and a way of developing a deeper relationship with ourselves.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with Chan, founder of Listening Lotus, about the many ways we listen, the relationship between listening and presence, and what becomes available when we pay attention to ourselves before, during, and after an experience. Chan shares how the women in her family shaped the way she listens, why she understands listening as an energetic experience, and how listening to her body and intuition informs the choices she makes. Chan is the founder of Listening Lotus, an empathic listening and spiritual guidance service created to give people a gentle, judgment-free space to feel heard, release, and reconnect with themselves. As an Empathic Listener, Mental Health First Aider, and intuitive tarot and oracle reader, Chan blends compassionate conversation with spiritual reflection while encouraging self-trust and personal choice. Through Listening Lotus, her mission is to remind people that sometimes healing begins simply by having a safe space to speak, breathe, and be heard.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni Banks talks with acupuncturist, wellness curator, model, and Root & Essence Acupuncture founder Walda Laurenceau about the relationship between spirituality, intuition, the body, and the life she has created. Walda shares how growing up in Haitian culture shaped her understanding of dreams and spiritual communication, how experience taught her discernment, and why learning not to betray herself became an important part of trusting what she knows. Their conversation also explores Walda’s path into wellness and acupuncture, beginning with her desire to better understand and care for her own body. Walda reflects on relationships, self-expression, healthy partnership with herself, and her belief in the healing energy already within us. She also shares how her work has become a way of bringing her spiritual understanding into physical experience and what it means to live in her full expression.

Recognizing the deaths and rebirths happening throughout your life changes how you experience them. In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Asha Nebt-Het Dawn, who shares how her own repeated experiences of transformation led her to become a death doula and transformation guide for women navigating what she calls the sacred in between death and rebirth. After struggling with depression, anxiety, burnout, and pain she didn't yet understand, Asha began following intuitive nudges that led her from yoga teacher training and living in an ashram to Bali and Kenya. Along the way, she began recognizing recurring patterns in her life, including repeated encounters with snakes during periods of change, and understanding her experiences as cycles of death, the void, and rebirth. Asha explores what becomes possible when we can recognize these cycles while we're living them, including what she means when she says that awareness allows us to “orchestrate our renewal.” She discusses the relationship between her work and the Christianity she was raised with, why isolation served an important purpose during her own transformation, and why community became valuable as she prepared to emerge from later periods of change. The conversation also explores physical birth as a way of understanding rebirth, the dark goddess archetype, whether men experience their own cycles of death and renewal, and how the evidence of who Asha has become after each rebirth has strengthened her trust in herself, Source, and the process of change.

The experiences that are the most difficult to live through can also guide us to great wisdom.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Asha Frost, Anishinaabe Kwe On Anishinabewaki, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat + Haudenosaunee Land. Asha is an Indigenous healer, author, mentor, and speaker who shares how illness became a gateway to her spiritual journey. As a child, Asha was called a seer by her relatives, and her ancestors visited her through dreams and visions. After being diagnosed with lupus in her late teens, her journey became one of reconnecting with her heritage as an Ojibway woman and the teachings and medicines that surround her. She shares how her intuitive gifts developed, her relationship with animal spirits and ancestors, and how working directly with people helped her recognize and strengthen her intuitive gifts. Asha also speaks candidly about living with chronic pain and what she calls “wintering,” including why healing does not always mean making pain disappear. She explores learning to see wintering as medicine rather than something to rush through, the difficulty of discerning intuition when fear becomes intense, and the wisdom that can emerge from experiences that society often treats as evidence that something is wrong with us. Together, Eboni and Asha consider how difficult experiences can make us more of who we are, what it means to stop trying to get over or push through pain, and how what we have lived can lead us toward becoming, in Asha’s words, “the elder of yourself.”

What happens when you deny yourself the ability to see spirits, but your ability to sense them remains?  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Kesaine, a New York-based somatic practitioner, intuitive astrologer, Reiki Master Teacher, and professional art model trained in integrative breathwork, shares how a spiritual sensitivity that began in early childhood evolved into a life guided by her own inner wisdom. Born in Jamaica, she remembers seeing deceased family members and hearing voices as young as three or four before eventually asking not to see spirits anymore. Years later, Reiki helped her better understand and develop intuitive abilities she says had always been there, including clairaudience and clairsentience, while deepening her understanding of energy and how her body communicates with her. Kesaine reflects on why she considers using her inner compass in a world shaped by societal expectations a rebellious act, and how anxiety, expansion, physical discomfort, and other sensations provide information when making choices. Despite years of studying astrology, she allows her own experience to come first, often returning to the chart afterward to understand or confirm what she has already experienced. She also shares how years of meditation, yoga, breathwork, Reiki, and other practices have become integrated into everyday life, allowing the tools to support rather than replace her own wisdom.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Oneika Mays, a meditation teacher, author, and former Mindfulness Coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, as she shares the experiences that shaped her relationship with mindfulness, the body, intuition, spirituality, and love. For more than a decade, Oneika brought trauma-informed yoga and meditation into Rikers, eventually working one-on-one with people navigating incarceration while learning what it required of her to bear witness to so much pain. Her debut book, Sit With Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation, explores metta, or loving-kindness, as a practice for personal and collective liberation. Oneika reflects on growing up spiritually curious in a largely atheist family, unusual spiritual experiences she had as a child, learning through bodywork that she was sensitive to other people's energy, and developing the discernment to recognize communication from ancestors and guides. She shares hearing her father speak to her the day after his death, a profound meditative experience connected to the Door of No Return, and how she has come to understand her physical body as both the vessel through which she experiences this life and a receptor for information beyond the physical. The conversation also explores the intuitive download that completely changed Oneika's book after 16 rejections, why she believes safety must ultimately be cultivated within ourselves, and how her years at Rikers affected her personally. Oneika reflects on finding meditation during a period when she was deeply unhappy, eventually recognizing the ways she had used spiritual practice to avoid discomfort, and why love, mindfulness, and spirituality are not ways of escaping the realities of life but practices that can help us meet them more fully.

What happens when spiritual practice moves beyond individual healing and into the healing of a community? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Alicia Boyd, community and political activist, educator, writer, Reiki Master, and founder of The Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), shares how more than 25 years of spiritual practice ultimately became inseparable from her work as an activist. Through MTOPP, Alicia has helped organize efforts to stop rezoning and development plans that threatened to displace low-and moderate-income families of color in Brooklyn's Crown Heights and Flatbush communities. Alicia reflects on the full-circle evolution of her work. Early in her journey as a healer, she believed part of her role was helping people engaged in difficult fights and purpose-driven work clear their energy so they could remain strong. Eventually, she became the person doing that work herself. What began as healing individuals expanded into empowering communities, with Alicia using intuition to navigate unfamiliar political systems, develop strategies, uncover information, and challenge powerful institutions. The conversation also comes full circle personally. Eboni first knew Alicia as a spiritual healer and later received her Reiki Level I attunement from her. During that attunement in a Brooklyn park, a stranger approached them and Eboni unexpectedly gave her first clairtangent reading. More than a decade later, Alicia shares what she remembers witnessing that day and why she believes the experience revealed something Eboni needed to know about herself.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Joél Simone, affectionately known as The Grave Woman. She is a sacred grief care practitioner, licensed funeral director and embalmer, and an award-winning educator and speaker who brings more than a decade of expertise to end-of-life, death, and grief care. She is the founder of The Multicultural Death & Grief Care Academy, where she helps professionals, organizations, and governmental agencies create culturally sensitive and inclusive practices that honor diverse communities. Joél's work has been featured by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, HBO, and the Library of Congress. Although Joél's work centers on death, this conversation is ultimately about being alive. We explore how witnessing death transformed the way she experiences life and why mortality has become one of her greatest teachers. Together, we discuss the relationship between the body and spirit after death, what it feels like to be in the presence of someone who has died, and why she compares the body to someone's empty house: the person has moved out, yet their essence can still be felt. We also explore how information is perceived through the Clair senses, channeling, and its connection to inner and outer awareness, and what it means to protect ourselves while remaining open to spiritual communication. We also reflect on restorative art and the practice of restoring the appearance of the body after death, culturally responsive end-of-life care and conversations, ancestry, compassion, curiosity, and the ways becoming more aware of death can deepen our relationship with life, ourselves, and one another.

Our sense of smell constantly provides us with information, but how much attention are we actually paying to it? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Dr. Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist and leading expert on the psychological science of smell, explores how scent influences memory, emotion, attraction, food, safety, and the way we perceive the world around us. A faculty member at Brown University and author of Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food, she has spent decades studying the relationship between smell, taste, behavior, and human experience. Rachel shares why smell can evoke visceral memories, how our personal associations influence whether we experience a scent as pleasant or unpleasant, and why the environment we're in can actually change our experience of what we're eating. She and Eboni also explore olfactory adaptation, body scent and attraction, the extraordinary amount of information humans can perceive through smell, and why Rachel encourages people to deliberately exercise their sense of smell. The conversation expands into how perception shapes our day-to-day experience and how greater awareness of what we're smelling, seeing, tasting, touching, and hearing can reveal how much we participate in shaping the way we experience our lives. Using smell as an example, the conversation offers another way to consider the information available to us through our senses and what can change when we begin paying closer attention.

Understanding yourself begins with understanding the way your brain communicates.  In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Amy Leigh Mercree, an internationally acclaimed medical intuitive, bestselling author, creator of Atomic Healing®, and holistic health expert, shares how she came to understand herself. Blending spirituality and science, Amy helps people identify the root causes of imbalance by working with what she describes as the body's wisdom. She reflects on growing up neurodivergent, understanding her learning disability, the intersection of science and spirituality, and the guidance that led her to create a periodic table connecting chemistry with her spiritual work. Amy also shares how her childhood experiences, spiritual teacher, shamanism, and decades of working with clients have shaped the way she understands intuition.

What if creativity, mindfulness, and intuition are all different ways of paying attention? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey), a musician, author, meditation teacher, and host of the Lyrical Dharma podcast, shares how contemplative practices and hip-hop have shaped his life and work. Known as a prominent voice on the Balance meditation app, he blends meditation, music, and storytelling to invite people into greater presence, awareness, and connection through his writing, performances, and live experiences, combining hip-hop, meditation, and sound baths. He reflects on how meditation transformed his relationship to his thoughts, why paying attention changes the way we experience the world, and how his work brings contemplative practice into places where people may least expect it. Along the way, he explores creativity, mindfulness, awareness, the senses, intuition, authenticity, self-awareness, and how we learn to live without being at odds with ourselves

What if healing begins when you realize you can choose your relationship with pain? In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni is joined by Bamzi, host of The Art of Being podcast. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Bamzi shares how years of pain, disconnection, and healing transformed the way she understands consciousness, embodiment, and what it means to live from the inside out. Together, we explore why the primary world is internal, how living from our inner world shapes the way we experience everything around us, and why remembering who we are is often less about becoming someone new and more about coming home to ourselves. We also discuss moving beyond survival, allowing pain to move through without attaching to it, and the role embodiment plays in lasting transformation. Bamzi also reflects on how her own journey inspired the work she now does, helping others cultivate greater inner harmony, coherence, and a deeper connection with themselves.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Maya Maat, a womb wellness practitioner, author, and founder of The Joyous Womb, which provides postpartum support for Black birthing people and somatic healing for survivors of sexual trauma. Drawing from her background in Reiki, yoga therapy, meditation, breathwork, and postpartum doula care, Maya shares how growing up in a spiritually grounded family shaped her early relationship with intuition, energy, dreams, ancestors, and African traditional religions. She shares the story of manifesting Beyoncé announcing her pregnancy during the Renaissance World Tour, a powerful example of what can happen when intention, belief, action, and co-creation come together.  Together, we explore the womb as a center of creation, the relationship between the visible and invisible aspects of life, manifestation, aphantasia (the inability to create mental images), dreams, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and how trauma can interrupt our access to ourselves. Through this conversation, we're reminded that there are many ways we understand and experience the world around us.