Allison + I will be back with more conversational-style podcasts soon, but thought I’d try out a new format this week: ‘The Knowing Contemplations’.
Brief, pithy, and hopefully meaningful, Contemplations will aim to offer a bit of perspective and insight into topics relevant to healing + spiritual practice, and leave you (hopefully) wanting to explore more on your own!
Todays’ topic is Right Relationship.
Read MoreShamanic medicine places enormous emphasis on the relationships we create with the world around us, and sees this world as being both in this material dimension and in the alternate dimensions that our consciousness has access to.
Here, in 3D, we are connected to the elements, other sentient beings, and those so-called inanimate objects that still carry Spirit within them. Through our connection to alternate realities we are connected to our Ancestors, Teachers and Allies of all forms.
In today’s conversation we take a first go at exploring the concept of Animal Spirits, and how we build and sustain the transformative, soul-affirming relationships that are possible with these allies. If you’ve been interested in Animal guides but have questions about how best to access and understand this medicine, today’s episode is for you.
Read MoreAllison pulled the Frog + Plantain card prior to recording this episode, and then thought she’d try another card to see if the message coming through was for her or for those listening…and then she pulled the Salamander + Aloe card. Seemed like the message was fairly clear from both: how are you being vulnerable…or not?
Without explicitly noting the totality of elements contained within these cards we spent this episode dancing around:
Read MoreI had been downstairs being amazed by the hummingbirds at the feeder prior to going up to record this episode, and so it was a wonderful thing to have Allison pull the Hummingbird + Tigerlily card for us to explore today.
One of my favorite cards (and birds) Hummingbird is a reminder of the (sometimes difficult) medicine of cultivating conscious joy, and recognizing that happiness/magic/awe are all available to us if we practice them. Along with this concept we explore a bunch of related topics in today’s episode:
Read MoreOn the day this episode was recorded Allison pulled the Snake + Chickweed card from The Knowing deck. Speaking to the energy of transformation (snake) but also the necessity of ‘protecting’ ourselves during and after a transformative event (chickweed), this card felt wonderfully aligned with the rather intense anger and frustration that has been popping up for a lot of people in the last while.
How are they connected? Why does anger happen during or after we are going through transformation? We explore why this happens for all of us and how to develop mastery in attending to these emerging energies and emotions, along with:
Read MoreIt is a crazy and unprecedented time we are all living through, and yet this moment in human experience places us in an intensified version of what is, truly, always happening for us: we don’t know how things are going to go.
In this episode we explore the idea of ‘Not Knowing’ and how this relates to Shamanic practice, healing, and life as a whole. Join us as we spin some conversations around:
Read MoreWelcome to the first episode of The Knowing! In this episode we introduce both myself and Allison Strickland, a practitioner and student based in New York who I’ve been working with the last several years. We touch upon several subjects, including:
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